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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, rml@tech9.net (Robert Love)
Subject: Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 23:50:21 +0100
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On January 13, 2002 02:41 am, Alan Cox wrote:
> [somebody wrote]
> > For a solution to latency concerns, I'd much prefer to lay a framework
> > down that provides a proper solution and then work on fine tuning the
> > kernel to get the desired latency out of it.
> 
> As the low latency patch proves, the framework has always been there, the
> ll patches do the rest

For that matter, the -preempt patch proves that the framework has always - 
i.e., since genesis of SMP - been there for a preemptible kernel.

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Daniel

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