On January 14, 2002 06:09 am, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Daniel Phillips wrote:
> I believe that internal preemption is
> the foundation to improve 2.5 kernel latency. But first we need
> consensus that we *want* linux to be a low-latency kernel.
>
> Do we have that?
You have it from me, for what it's worth ;-)
> If we do, then as I've said before, holding a lock for more than N
> milliseconds becomes a bug to be fixed. We can put tools in the hands of
> testers to locate those bugs. Easy.
Perhaps not a bug, but bad-acting. Just as putting a huge object on the
stack is not necessarily a bug, but deserves a quick larting nonetheless.
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