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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 13:06:00 +1000
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Subject: Re: Combined performance patches for 2.4.19
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Quoting Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>:

> uh, great, but didn't the author of the preemptible patch
> say he didn't even want it in 2.4?  I imagine Ingo must 
> feel the same about O(1).

I'm not trying to get this patch included in mainstream 2.4 
I did it for myself and the others who want to play with it.

> do you really think you need them?  afaik, AKPM's tests
> show that the mainstream kernel is just fine wrt latency.

Nothing wrong with trying it out is there? 

Quote: "One ancecdote's worth a thousand benchmarks"

Con Kolivas
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