From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:32:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:32:11 -0500 Received: from patan.Sun.COM ([192.18.98.43]:34757 "EHLO patan.sun.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:32:07 -0500 Message-ID: <3A54DEBF.794C2E6A@sun.com> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 12:36:15 -0800 From: ludovic fernandez X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-15 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nigel@nrg.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.0-prerelease: preemptive kernel. In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Nigel, Nigel Gamble wrote: > > Hi Ludo, > > I didn't realise you were still working on this. Did you know that > I am also? Our most recent version is at: > > ftp://ftp.mvista.com/pub/Area51/preemptible_kernel/ > I was on vacation and had a little time to kill... Going through your README, you seem much more advanced than this simple patch. > > although I have yet to put up a 2.4.0-prerelease patch (coming soon). > We should probably pool our efforts on this for 2.5. > Agreed. Right now I will be interested to run some benchmarks (latency but also performance) to see how the system is disturbed by beeing preemptable. I'm little bit lost on this and I don't know where to start. Do you have any pointers on benchmark suites I could run ? Also, maybe it's a off topic subject now.... Ludo. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/