[linux-audio-user] realtime-lsm in the kernel

Jack Bowling jbinpg at shaw.ca
Wed Sep 8 01:31:44 EDT 2004


On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:14:21PM -0700, Malcolm Baldridge wrote:
<snip> 
> I have not looked through all of Ingo's voluntary preemption patch, and
> while I applaud his efforts towards reducing latency within the 2.6 branch,
> I sincerely hope his approach isn't one of "sprinkle code and pray".  I
> would rather see latency issues be resolved by an intelligent re-design of
> the kernel which is causing the problem rather than just band-aiding it with
> schedule()'s sprinkled willy-nilly all over the kernel.

The kernel guys have a lieutenant looking after that. His name is Linus.
If the design is bad, it does not get into mainline. 

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Jack Bowling
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