From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752323AbXCQLsL (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:48:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752518AbXCQLsL (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:48:11 -0400 Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.42]:58401 "EHLO vms042pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752323AbXCQLsK (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:48:10 -0400 Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:48:08 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: RSDL v0.31 In-reply-to: <1174115517.7911.66.camel@Homer.simpson.net> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mike Galbraith , Nicholas Miell , Con Kolivas , ck@vds.kolivas.org, Ingo Molnar , Al Boldi , Andrew Morton Message-id: <200703170748.08495.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Organization: Organization? very little MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200703042335.26785.a1426z@gawab.com> <1174112768.3144.8.camel@entropy> <1174115517.7911.66.camel@Homer.simpson.net> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 17 March 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote: >On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 23:26 -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote: >> RSDL appears to be completely deterministic, which is a very strong >> virtue. > >Yes. That's why RSDL aroused my curiosity big time. > >> The X people have plans for how to go about fixing this, but until >> then, there's no reason to hold up kernel development. > >I'm not in a position to hold up development. > >On a side note, I wonder how long it's going to take to fix all the >X/client combinations out there. And on yet another side note Mike, I just did a make -j8 for all make options in my makeit script, something I don't normally do, and while running 2.6.20.3-rdsl-0.31, building 2.6.21-rc4, the machine remained 100% responsive, worst case keyboard lag that I observed might have been 200 or 300 milliseconds. The machine remained usable, which to me is the bottom line. And no, I wasn't running xmms at the time or watching tvtime else I'd have awakened the missus. I'm having a hard time justifying your continual fussing as its obviously a huge improvement to me. What makes your system and loading so much different from mine I wonder... In the meantime I'm a very happy camper about this patch. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. -- Alexandre Dumas, fils