Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-J3

From: Lee Revell (rlrevell_at_joe-job.com)
Date: 07/26/04

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    To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:59:07 -0400

    On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 16:36, Ingo Molnar wrote:
    > * Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
    >
    > > The bigger this thing gets, the more worried I get. Sometime this is
    > > going to need to be split up into individual fixes, and they need to
    > > be based upon an overall approach which we haven't yet settled on.
    >
    > i will do that splitup. Right now i'm simply mapping how widespread the
    > problem is and what type of fixes we need. The situation isnt all that
    > bad but we might need (an optional) mechanism to make softirqs
    > synchronous. All of this stuff is nicely modular and i'll do a splitup
    > post 2.6.8 (i dont think we want to disturb 2.6.8 with any of this).
    >

    >From a user's perspective, and based on my own testing, I do not see the
    patch having to get much bigger, the vast majority of the hot spots have
    been fixed, and the patch remains quite comprehensible even to someone
    with a sketchy knowledge of the kernel. There is only one issue I can
    think of that has not been addressed at all (the PS/2 Caps Lock issue).
    All that seems to remain are tweaks to individual fixes that are already
    in the patch.

    Lee

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