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Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 15:42:38 -0500
From: Bob McElrath <mcelrath+linux@draal.physics.wisc.edu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: low-latency patches
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Andrew Morton [akpm@zip.com.au] wrote:
> Bob McElrath wrote:
> > 3) Is there a possibility that either of these will make it to non-x86
> >     platforms?  (for me: alpha)  The second patch looks like it would
> >     straightforwardly work on any arch, but the config.in for it is onl=
y in
> >     arch/i386.  Robert Love's patches would need some arch-specific asm=
...
>=20
> The rescheduling patch should work fine on any architecture - just copy
> the arch/i386/config.in changes.

I'm running it (2.4.10-pre4-low-latency) on my alpha now, so if you want to=
 add
the appropriate magic to arch/alpha/config.in, please do.

Unfortunately, the use-once stuff broke again in the vm of this kernel, and=
 now
I can't perceive any advantage due to low-latency because of all the swappi=
ng. :(

Cheers,
-- Bob

Bob McElrath (rsmcelrath@students.wisc.edu)=20
Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics

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