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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: "Dieter Nützel" <Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de>,
	"Linux Kernel List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"Andrea Arcangeli" <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: latency & real-time-ness.
Date: 04 Mar 2002 18:56:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1015286218.1083.21.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0203042047010.2181-100000@imladris.surriel.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0203042047010.2181-100000@imladris.surriel.com>

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 18:48, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > If rmap finds its way into 2.5, I and others have some ideas about ways
> > to optimize the algorithms to reduce lock hold time and benefit from
> > preemption.  For example, Daniel Phillips has some ideas wrt
> > zap_page_range.
> 
> Feel free to help resolve these issues before rmap code gets
> merged. I'd prefer to be able to introduce rmap in small bits
> and pieces without breaking anything.

The above was just an optimization ... rmap and preempt work fine
together.

What Andrew Morton, I, and others intend to do for 2.5 is work on the
algorithms and locking issues to work on latency issues cleanly.

But I'll surely work on the issues wrt rmap ;)

	Robert Love


  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-04 23:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-04 16:20 latency & real-time-ness Dieter Nützel
2002-03-04 18:32 ` Robert Love
2002-03-04 23:48   ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-04 23:56     ` Robert Love [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-03 20:12 Ben Greear
2002-03-03 20:55 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-03 22:43   ` Ben Greear
2002-03-04  1:12     ` J Sloan
2002-03-04  3:32       ` Ben Greear
2002-03-04  3:45         ` Robert Love
2002-03-04  4:32         ` J Sloan
2002-03-04 20:01       ` Jussi Laako
2002-03-04  1:09   ` J Sloan
2002-03-04  1:33     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-04  1:37       ` J Sloan
2002-03-04 15:31       ` Erik Andersen

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