Re: [PATCHSET] Linux 2.4.19-pre7-jam1

[Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>]

On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 19:36, Dieter Nützel wrote:

> No uptodate O(1) patch for 2.4. Very sad.
> So there isn't any change to see a current preemption patch on top of vm33 
> and O(1).

I am working on backports of all the O(1) scheduler changes in 2.5, the
pending changes, and some other misc. bits.  I also have versions of the
migration_thread and affinity stuff for 2.4.

I will release a general O(1) patch and a patch for -ac soon - hopefully
tomorrow or Monday.  I have no idea if it fixes the problems you are
seeing, because I have no idea what caused a regression in the O(1)
code.

> No, lowlatency didn't come close to preemption+lock-break (best latency 
> numbers for 2.4.17-preX-rml, were ~2.9ms max).

Good to hear ;)

> I'm under the impression that "all" development is focused on 2.5.x, now.
> Even the VM stuff show no mayor growth ;-(

That is the point of 2.5 :)

Development => !Stability and people need to start using 2.4 to get work
done, not reap faster and faster benchmarks times.  I seriously suspect
2.4 is performing fine right now for what you are doing, anyhow.

Also, a lot of VM work is happening in 2.4 (and not in 2.5 even, at the
moment).  2.4.19-pre has seen a few of the -aa bits merged and should
see most of the others in due time.

There is also Rik's -rmap for 2.4 ...

	Robert Love