Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:24:20 +0100 |
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On January 14, 2002 06:09 am, Andrew Morton wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > I believe that internal preemption is > the foundation to improve 2.5 kernel latency. But first we need > consensus that we *want* linux to be a low-latency kernel. > > Do we have that?
You have it from me, for what it's worth ;-)
> If we do, then as I've said before, holding a lock for more than N > milliseconds becomes a bug to be fixed. We can put tools in the hands of > testers to locate those bugs. Easy.
Perhaps not a bug, but bad-acting. Just as putting a huge object on the stack is not necessarily a bug, but deserves a quick larting nonetheless.
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