Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:48:40 -0800 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: Unresponiveness of 2.4.16 |
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Torrey Hoffman wrote: > > I've running 2.4.16 with this VM patch combined with your > 2.4.15-pre7-low-latency patch from www.zip.com.au. (it applied with a > little fuzz, no rejects). Is this a combination that you would feel > comfortable with?
Should be OK. There is a possibility of livelock when you have a lot of dirty buffers against multiple devices. It may be a good idea to pick up the 2.4.16 low-latency patch. http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/2.4.16-low-latency.patch.gz
> So far it hasn't blown up on me, and in fact seems very quick and > responsive. > > Unless I hear a "No, don't do that!", I'm going to push this kernel into > testing for our video applications...
If any quantitative results become available, please share...
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