From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265823AbUGZV65 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:58:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265910AbUGZV65 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:58:57 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:54918 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265823AbUGZV6z (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:58:55 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-J3 From: Lee Revell To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton , wli@holomorphy.com, lenar@vision.ee, linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <20040726203634.GA26096@elte.hu> References: <20040713122805.GZ21066@holomorphy.com> <40F3F0A0.9080100@vision.ee> <20040713143947.GG21066@holomorphy.com> <1090732537.738.2.camel@mindpipe> <1090795742.719.4.camel@mindpipe> <20040726082330.GA22764@elte.hu> <1090830574.6936.96.camel@mindpipe> <20040726083537.GA24948@elte.hu> <20040726125750.5e467cfd.akpm@osdl.org> <20040726203634.GA26096@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1090879146.1094.17.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:59:07 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 16:36, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Andrew Morton wrote: > > > The bigger this thing gets, the more worried I get. Sometime this is > > going to need to be split up into individual fixes, and they need to > > be based upon an overall approach which we haven't yet settled on. > > i will do that splitup. Right now i'm simply mapping how widespread the > problem is and what type of fixes we need. The situation isnt all that > bad but we might need (an optional) mechanism to make softirqs > synchronous. All of this stuff is nicely modular and i'll do a splitup > post 2.6.8 (i dont think we want to disturb 2.6.8 with any of this). > >>From a user's perspective, and based on my own testing, I do not see the patch having to get much bigger, the vast majority of the hot spots have been fixed, and the patch remains quite comprehensible even to someone with a sketchy knowledge of the kernel. There is only one issue I can think of that has not been addressed at all (the PS/2 Caps Lock issue). All that seems to remain are tweaks to individual fixes that are already in the patch. Lee