Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 04 Jan 2001 12:36:15 -0800 | From | ludovic fernandez <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.4.0-prerelease: preemptive kernel. |
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Hello Nigel,
Nigel Gamble wrote:
> > Hi Ludo, > > I didn't realise you were still working on this. Did you know that > I am also? Our most recent version is at: > > ftp://ftp.mvista.com/pub/Area51/preemptible_kernel/ >
I was on vacation and had a little time to kill... Going through your README, you seem much more advanced than this simple patch.
> > although I have yet to put up a 2.4.0-prerelease patch (coming soon). > We should probably pool our efforts on this for 2.5. >
Agreed. Right now I will be interested to run some benchmarks (latency but also performance) to see how the system is disturbed by beeing preemptable. I'm little bit lost on this and I don't know where to start. Do you have any pointers on benchmark suites I could run ? Also, maybe it's a off topic subject now....
Ludo.
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