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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q8
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:23:24 +0200
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> this release fixes an artificial 0-1msec delay between hardirq arrival
> and softirq invocation. This should solve some of the ALSA artifacts
> reported by Mark H Johnson. It should also solve the rtl8139 problems
> - i've put such a card into a testbox and with -Q7 i had similar
> packet latency problems while with -Q8 it works just fine.

the rtl8139 problems are not fixed yet - i can still reproduce the
delayed packet issues.

	Ingo