Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

Dave Jones
2004-07-10T01:05:37Z

On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 11:00:26AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:

> > http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.7-bk20-H2
> Looks nice.
>
> I think you may have mixed up your trees. I think this change is the cfq
> bad allocation fix which I dont think is part of your voluntary
> preemption patch:
>
> --- linux/drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c.orig

It was this patch that found this bug 8-) Without voluntary-preempt
it had been lying there unexposed for a while. It's sort of must-have
if you use this patch, so I guess that's why Ingo rolled it in until
mainline gets the same fix.

Dave