Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

yodaiken@fsmlabs.com
Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:10:06 -0700


On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 09:25:50PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> I don't doubt that, but would you seriously consider the ll patch for
> inclusion into the main kernel?
> It's a useful patch for anyone, who needs good latencies now, but it's
> still a quick&dirty solution. Preempt offers a clean solution for a
> certain part of the problem, as it's possible to cleanly localize the
> needed changes for preemption (at least for UP). That means the ll patch
> becomes smaller and future work on ll becomes simpler, since a certain

That is exactly what Andrew Morton disputes. So why do you think he is
wrong?

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