Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

Ingo Molnar
2004-07-10T08:50:11Z

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> * Redeeman <lkml@metanurb.dk> wrote:
>
> > this all seems pretty cool... do you think you could make a patch
> > against mm for this? it would be greatly apreciated
>
> it should apply cleanly to 2.6.7-mm6. -mm7 already includes most of the
> might_sleep() additions. I'll do a patch against -mm7 too.

here's the patch against -mm7:

http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.7-mm7-H3

the patch got really small because most of the fixes and infrastructure
enhancements that resulted out of this patch are in -mm7 already. It
will get even smaller later on.

Ingo