Re: [PATCHSET] Linux 2.4.19-pre7-jam1

Dieter Nützel (Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de)
Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:19:46 +0200


On Friday 19 April 2002 09:43, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Dieter [iso-8859-15] Nützel wrote:
> > No uptodate O(1) patch for 2.4. Very sad. So there isn't any change to
> > see a current preemption patch on top of vm33 and O(1).
> >
> > [...]
> > I'm under the impression that "all" development is focused on 2.5.x, now.
>
> well, 2.5's scheduler bits were pretty much in flux in the past two months
> or so, partly due to the preemption feature going in. And there are a
> number of other changes in the pipeline as well. So what makes sense for
> 2.4 is Robert's plan: to backport O(1)+preempt once 2.5 is slowing down,
> that way we get the proper testing of both components, instead of a
> separated scheduler patch that doesnt even exist in that form in 2.5.

Thank you very much for your answer Ingo.
It was somewhat still around you. So I was not sure if we have to be worry
about you.

OK, you are fine.

Regards,
Dieter
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