Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-J3

Lee Revell
2004-07-26T21:58:57Z

On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 16:36, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> 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