| Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable | Date | Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:37:09 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> On good hardware, we can easily do much better than 1ms latency with a > preemptible kernel and a spinlock cleanup. I don't think the > limitations of some PC hardware should limit our goals for Linux.
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
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