From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Torrey Hoffman <torrey.hoffman@myrio.com>
Cc: "'lkml'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Unresponiveness of 2.4.16
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:48:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C043468.D50998E@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D52B19A7284D32459CF20D579C4B0C0211CAE0@mail0.myrio.com>
Torrey Hoffman wrote:
>
> I've running 2.4.16 with this VM patch combined with your
> 2.4.15-pre7-low-latency patch from www.zip.com.au. (it applied with a
> little fuzz, no rejects). Is this a combination that you would feel
> comfortable with?
Should be OK. There is a possibility of livelock when you have
a lot of dirty buffers against multiple devices. It may
be a good idea to pick up the 2.4.16 low-latency patch.
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/2.4.16-low-latency.patch.gz
> So far it hasn't blown up on me, and in fact seems very quick and
> responsive.
>
> Unless I hear a "No, don't do that!", I'm going to push this kernel into
> testing for our video applications...
If any quantitative results become available, please share...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-28 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-28 0:33 Unresponiveness of 2.4.16 Torrey Hoffman
2001-11-28 0:48 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-11-28 18:09 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-28 19:38 ` Andrew Morton
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-28 19:42 Torrey Hoffman
2001-11-28 20:51 ` Dieter Nützel
2001-11-28 18:56 Torrey Hoffman
2001-11-28 19:31 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-28 1:31 Dieter Nützel
2001-11-28 2:13 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-28 2:34 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-28 2:48 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-28 20:21 ` Roger Larsson
2001-11-28 3:53 ` Dieter Nützel
[not found] ` <200111280353.fAS3rEB05638@zero.tech9.net>
2001-11-28 4:14 ` Robert Love
2001-11-27 9:56 willy tarreau
2001-11-27 10:57 ` Heinz Diehl
2001-11-26 22:02 Nathan G. Grennan
2001-11-26 22:17 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-26 23:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-11-27 0:05 ` Steve Lion
2001-11-27 9:12 ` Ahmed Masud
2001-11-27 17:12 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-27 20:31 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-27 20:57 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-27 21:19 ` Martin Eriksson
2001-11-27 21:24 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-28 18:24 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-28 18:57 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-28 20:31 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-28 20:56 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-28 21:12 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-28 20:04 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-28 21:26 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-26 23:59 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-27 0:36 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-27 0:46 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-27 4:38 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-27 4:45 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-27 1:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-11-26 22:21 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-27 7:42 ` Jens Axboe
2001-11-27 7:58 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-27 8:01 ` Jens Axboe
2001-11-27 8:31 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-27 8:38 ` Jens Axboe
2001-11-26 22:44 ` Lincoln Dale
2001-11-27 4:34 ` GOTO Masanori
2001-11-27 0:44 ` Lost Logic
2001-11-27 0:57 ` Lost Logic
2001-11-27 3:49 ` Sean Elble
2001-11-27 3:56 ` Doug Ledford
2001-11-27 4:00 ` Sean Elble
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