Re: What exactly are the issues with 2.6.0-test10 preempt?

bill davidsen
2003-11-25T17:33:41Z

In article <20031124225112.GA1343@mis-mike-wstn.matchmail.com>,
Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:
| On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:41:33PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
| > I've been running 2.6.0-test10 for a few hours on my P4M Asus laptop.
| > Playing music, editing files, compiling some things, some web surfing,
| > no problems. Nothing unusual reported by the kernel.
|
| Now take your .config and compare it with someone who is getting problems
| with preempt, and others, and narrow it down.

Just a caution, I suspect that this is related to something happening in
a small time window, and identical configs might not work the same on
different machines. Interrupt timing can be changed by disk layout,
rotational speed of the drive, interrupt priority, maybe even a user
event like keystroke or mouse action.

Comparing configs will help, but may not be consistent.
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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.