On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:14:21PM -0700, Malcolm Baldridge wrote: <snip> > 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. -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx
