From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 02:29:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 02:29:36 -0400 Received: from paloma12.e0k.nbg-hannover.de ([62.159.219.12]:45253 "HELO paloma12.e0k.nbg-hannover.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 02:29:21 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Dieter =?iso-8859-1?q?N=FCtzel?= Organization: DN To: Robert Love Subject: Re: Linux Preemptive patch success 2.4.10-pre4 + lots of other Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 08:29:03 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: Linux Kernel List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20010908062932Z272966-761+7898@vger.kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Robert Love wrote: > I am glad you take a pro side to the preemption issue. Hopefully I can > get some continued support and see some work towards inclusion in 2.5. > Any help is appreciated. I've tested your former patch against 2.4.7-acX and sent you some feedback but you didn't answered my post. Is the module problem (missing preempt_xxx symbols) thing fixed? Aside from that I saw some nice speed increase (UP Athlon) and very snappy system. dbench-1.1 32 clients load drops to mostly below 16 (33 before) Go on with your great work! Greetings, Dieter -- Dieter Nützel Graduate Student, Computer Science University of Hamburg