Re: [PATCH] 2.4.0-prerelease: preemptive kernel.

ludovic fernandez
2001-01-04T20:32:21Z

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.