Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Sep 2004 02:30:06 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm3 |
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On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 01:46:43AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > - This is a quick not-very-well-tested release - it can't be worse than > 2.6.9-rc2-mm2, which had a few networking problems. > - Added Dmitry Torokhov's input system tree to the -mm bk tree lineup. > +512x-altix-timer-interrupt-livelock-fix-vs-269-rc2-mm2.patch > profiler speedup
Hmm, it's more that the profiler failed to meet a hard RT deadline (yes, Linux has some of those) i.e. finishing its work before the next timer interrupt occurs. I suppose a speedup is the nature of the fix...
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 01:46:43AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > +sparc32-early-tick_ops.patch > Avoid early oops on sparc32 with the zaphod scheduler
This is probably sparc64; I've not been doing much with -mm on sparc32 apart from compiletests in favor of chasing longer-term issues e.g. HyperSPARC DMA, SMP, etc., largely using mainline point releases.
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