Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 11 Jan 2002 15:33:22 -0500 |
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On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 07:37, Alan Cox wrote:
> Its more than a spinlock cleanup at that point. To do anything useful you have > to tackle both priority inversion and some kind of at least semi-formal > validation of the code itself. At the point it comes down to validating the > code I'd much rather validate rtlinux than the entire kernel
The preemptible kernel plus the spinlock cleanup could really take us far. Having locked at a lot of the long-held locks in the kernel, I am confident at least reasonable progress could be made.
Beyond that, yah, we need a better locking construct. Priority inversion could be solved with a priority-inheriting mutex, which we can tackle if and when we want to go that route. Not now.
I want to lay the groundwork for a better kernel. The preempt-kernel patch gives real-world improvements, it provides a smoother user desktop experience -- just look at the positive feedback. Most importantly, however, it provides a framework for superior response with our standard kernel in its standard programming model.
Robert Love
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