On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 23:50:35 -0400 Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- Palimm Palimm! http://affenbande.org/~tapas/
