Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q9

[Thomas Charbonnel]

Ingo Molnar wrote :
> i've released the -Q9 patch:
> 
>   http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q9
> 
> ontop of:
> 
>   http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/diff-bk-040828-2.6.8.1.bz2
> 
> Changes:
> 
>  - fixed the cond_resched_softirq() bug noticed by Mika Penttila.
> 
>  - updated the preemption-friendly network-RX code but 8193too.c still
>    produces delayed packets so netdev_backlog_granularity now defaults
>    to 2, which seems to be working fine on my testbox.

Thanks, network seems to be working fine with the new default value.
I still get > 140 us non-preemptible sections in rtl8139_pol, though :
http://www.undata.org/~thomas/q9_rtl8139.trace

Thomas


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