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/
