On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:14:21PM -0700, Malcolm Baldridge wrote:
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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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