Re: RT patch acceptance

Ingo Molnar
2005-05-27T13:55:28Z

* Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote:

> AFAIK the kernel has quite regressed recently, but that was not true
> (for reasonable sound) at least for some earlier 2.6 kernels and some
> of the low latency patchkit 2.4 kernels.

(putting my scheduler maintainer hat on) was this under a stock !PREEMPT
kernel? If you can reproduce it personally, could you try the
PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY option available in 2.6.12-rc5-mm1? [Despite its name
it only adds cond_resched()s, not any heavier preempt mechanism.]

Ingo