8 Aug
2004
8 Aug
'04
12:02 a.m.
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 22:24, Lee Revell wrote:
As Ingo's patches stabilize, it is very important
for more people to
test them. With 2.6.8+voluntary-preempt-O3, using voluntary_preempt=3,
kernel_preemption=1, and the soundcard and RTC irqs non-threaded, it
works for me (tm) - I have been unable to produce a latency over 50
usecs, even while punishing the machine with parallel builds and iozone
-a.
We need people to test with different hardware configurations and
workloads. Especially needed are testers with ACPI, APIC, SMP, HT
machines. There are still some ACPI related bugs, more testers are
needed to nail these down. There are some reports of lockups which I
cannot reproduce.
Lee, thanks for the summary. I'll definitely give it a spin and report
any problems to LKML.
Anyone knows whether mingo@redhat is taking a vacation or something? The
voluntary-preempt patch is for 2.6.8-rc2, and it's been several days now
since rc3 is out. In fact his rc2 patch has the same date as the
official rc3 kernel. :-/
--
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/