Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Aug 2004 21:30:43 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-O2 |
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here's the latest version of the voluntary-preempt patch:
http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-O2
this patch is mainly a stabilization effort. I dropped the irq-threads code added in -M5 and rewrote it from scratch based on -L2 - it is simpler and should be more robust.
The same /proc/irq/* configuration switches are still present, but i added the following additional rule: if _any_ handler of a given IRQ is marked as non-threaded then all handlers will be executed non-threaded as well.
E.g. if you have the following handlers on IRQ 10:
10: 11584 IO-APIC-level eth0, eth1, eth2
and you change /proc/irq/16/eth1/threaded from 1 to 0 then the eth0 and eth2 handlers will be executed non-threaded as well. (This rule only enforces what the hardware enforces anyway, none of the previous patches allowed true separation of these handlers.)
i also changed the IO-APIC level-triggered code to be robust when redirection is done. The noapic workaround should not be necessary anymore.
the keyboard lockups are now hopefully all gone too - i've tested IO-APIC and non-IO-APIC setups as well and NumLock/ScrollLock works fine in all sorts of workloads.
Let me know if you still have any problems.
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