From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 19:54:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 19:53:58 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:4850 "EHLO hermes.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 19:53:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3BC0EB11.31EA73C1@mvista.com> Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 16:53:53 -0700 From: george anzinger Organization: Monta Vista Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12-20b i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Kieu CC: kernel Subject: Re: Is there preempt patch for 2.2.19? In-Reply-To: <20011007233220.73702.qmail@web10404.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Steve Kieu wrote: > > Hi, > > I can not find it out but I hope some one would do > that. Hope R. Love is willing to do that :-) , many > thanks... > Its not that it is hard to do, you might even get the current patch to apply, more or less. The real problem is that it would not do you much good. The 2.4.x work removed a LOT of long held spinlocks and BKLs that the patch can not (and does not in 2.4.x) fix. Thus you would still have long latency issues, even with the patch. George