Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 11:00:26AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:

 > >  http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.7-bk20-H2
 > Looks nice.
 > 
 > I think you may have mixed up your trees. I think this change is the cfq 
 > bad allocation fix which I dont think is part of your voluntary 
 > preemption patch:
 > 
 > --- linux/drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c.orig	
 
It was this patch that found this bug 8-)  Without voluntary-preempt
it had been lying there unexposed for a while.  It's sort of must-have
if you use this patch, so I guess that's why Ingo rolled it in until
mainline gets the same fix.

		Dave

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