Re: Scheduling latencies news: less RAM = less latency

Ralf Baechle (ralf@uni-koblenz.de)
Sun, 1 Aug 1999 02:52:45 +0200


On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 12:23:43AM +0200, Benno Senoner wrote:

> I think making the kernel fully preemptable is not an easy task and will
> not happen very soon.

SGI has made IRIX fully preemptable some years ago. By now some of their
engineers believe that this was an overkill solution for their problems
and not worth the resulting complexity.

Ralf

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