Subject: Re: Time slices on linux
From: Samuel Rydh (samuel@ibrium.se)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2000 - 11:56:08 MDT
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:34:24AM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >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 :)
Yes... I'll fix the most obvious things, but I'm not sure I can get
it fully working without a SMP machine to test it on.
/Samuel
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