From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265097AbUGMNTu (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:19:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265100AbUGMNTu (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:19:50 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:8341 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265097AbUGMNTq (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:19:46 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 06:19:44 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Nick Piggin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: preempt-timing-2.6.8-rc1 Message-ID: <20040713131944.GC21066@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Nick Piggin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040713122805.GZ21066@holomorphy.com> <40F3DACC.9070703@yahoo.com.au> <20040713125331.GA21066@holomorphy.com> <40F3DC52.1030308@yahoo.com.au> <20040713130448.GB21066@holomorphy.com> <40F3DF31.3000003@yahoo.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40F3DF31.3000003@yahoo.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> The semantics I implemented are warning for strictly above the >> preempt_thresh. Whether those semantics are ideal is irrelevant; it's >> faithful to those semantics. On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:10:09PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > You are right - I misread it, sorry. William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Given that people are asking for sub- >> millisecond latencies, maybe I should increase the precision. On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:10:09PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > Would soon be useful I think. Let me spin up the CONFIG_PREEMPT=n fix and then I'll move on that. -- wli