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    SubjectRe: [patch] preempt-timing-on-2.6.8-rc3-O4.patch
    On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 12:13:03PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
    >> i've uploaded a new version of the preempt-timing patch:
    >> http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/preempt-timing-on-2.6.8-rc3-O4.patch
    >> this patch fixes a number of false positives and false negatives. In
    >> particular it fixes the idle-task false positives, and it now correctly
    >> measures preemption delays in softirq and hardirq contexts and in
    >> bh-disabled process contexts. Maybe this sheds a light on some of the
    >> more mysterious delays that we've seen. (and which were never directly
    >> measured before.)
    >> (the patch also got alot simpler, which should help portability.)

    On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 03:20:19AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
    > Looks really good, this thing is really starting to look slick from all
    > the time you've put in on it.
    > The adding in of the FOOIRQ_OFFSET bits were a rather major oversisght
    > on my part! Very good catch.

    Feh, there has to be a way to say "this is a good patch" without sounding
    like I'm reviewing freshman code. This is a good patch.


    -- wli
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