Re: Time slices on linux


Subject: Re: Time slices on linux
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt (bh40@calva.net)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 16:34:24 MDT


>Spot on. MOL's internal clock ticks only when MOL owns the cpu
>(well, there are corrections but these might not work well
>when the system is heavily loaded). I've been thinking about
>adding improved support for realtime driven interrupts.

Well, I have something more urgent for you :)

We have the dual-G4 booting SMP since a few minutes ago and Paul fixed
the "old" SMP code in 2.4 lately, so I beleive it's time to make MOL
compatible with SMP kernels :)

Ben.



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