Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

Robert Love
2002-01-08T21:17:36Z

On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 15:18, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> > Instead, a decision needs to be made: "Linux will henceforth be a
> > low-latency kernel".
>
> I thought the intention was to make it a config option?

It was originally, it is now, and I intend it to be.

Further, since it uses the existing SMP locks, it doesn't introduce new
design decisions (the one being protection of implicitly locked per-CPU
data on preempt).

Robert Love