linux-kernel - Re: RSDL v0.31

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Message-id: <200703170748.08495.gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:48:08 -0400
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Nicholas Miell <nmiell@...cast.net>,
	Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>, ck@....kolivas.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: RSDL v0.31

On Saturday 17 March 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 23:26 -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote:
>> RSDL appears to be completely deterministic, which is a very strong
>> virtue.
>
>Yes.  That's why RSDL aroused my curiosity big time.
>
>> The X people have plans for how to go about fixing this, but until
>> then, there's no reason to hold up kernel development.
>
>I'm not in a position to hold up development.
>
>On a side note, I wonder how long it's going to take to fix all the
>X/client combinations out there.

And on yet another side note Mike, I just did a make -j8 for all make 
options in my makeit script, something I don't normally do, and while 
running 2.6.20.3-rdsl-0.31, building 2.6.21-rc4, the machine remained 
100% responsive, worst case keyboard lag that I observed might have been 
200 or 300 milliseconds.  The machine remained usable, which to me is the 
bottom line.  And no, I wasn't running xmms at the time or watching 
tvtime else I'd have awakened the missus.

I'm having a hard time justifying your continual fussing as its obviously 
a huge improvement to me.  What makes your system and loading so much 
different from mine I wonder...

In the meantime I'm a very happy camper about this patch.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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		-- Alexandre Dumas, fils
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