Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266708AbUIORzW (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:55:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267223AbUIORxn (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:53:43 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:37314 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266708AbUIORwP (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:52:15 -0400 Message-ID: <41488140.4050109@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:52:00 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Revell CC: Ricky Beam , Zilvinas Valinskas , Erik Tews , linux-kernel mailing list Subject: Re: 2.6.9 rc2 freezing References: <1095270555.2406.154.camel@krustophenia.net> In-Reply-To: <1095270555.2406.154.camel@krustophenia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 692 Lines: 21 Lee Revell wrote: > Interesting. Still, this looks like a specific bug that needs fixing, > it doesn't imply that preemption is a hack. For many workloads > preemption is a necessity. For any workload that you feel preemption is a necessity, that indicates a latency problem in the kernel that should be solved. Preemption is a hack that hides broken drivers, IMHO. I would rather directly address any latency problems that appear. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/