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Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 01:46, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > - the generic irq subsystem: irq threading is a simple ~200-lines, > > architecture-independent add-on to this. It makes no sense to offer 3 > > different implementations - pick one and help make it work well. > > > > - preemptible BKL. Related to this is new debugging infrastructure in > > -mm that allows the safe and slow conversion of spinlocks to mutexes. > > In the case of the BKL this conversion is expected to be permanent, > > for most of the other spinlocks it will be optional - but the > > debugging code can still be used. > > Are you referring to the lock metering? I've ported our changes to > -mm3-VP-T3 on top of lock metering. Lockmeter gets in the way of all this activity in a big way. I'll drop it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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