9 Aug
2004
9 Aug
'04
8:02 a.m.
On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 23:50:35 -0400
Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com> wrote:
It looks like many latency fixes from the voluntary
preemption patch
are going into the -mm series. Search this post for 'latency', it
appears that the filemap_sync issue (which caused apt-get to trigger
an xrun) is addressed, as well as several others. One of the more
interesting items added is 'low latency RCU'.
Ah ok, but i wonder how this can have any effect w/o the rest of the
voluntary preemption stuff? I don't see the VP keyword in the lkml
post..
So, althouh Ingo has been quieter lately, problems are being fixed.
Here is the announcement:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/8/8/125
There is no voluntary preemption patch available yet for -mm2, as this
annonucement is just a few hours old. It seems likely that future
'voluntary preemption' patches for the -mm series would consist of
little more than the irq-threading feature. This would fit the new
development model very well.
btw: O4 against rc3 has just been announced..
Flo
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