linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] CPU isolation extensions

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Message-ID: <47AB4A78.70609@qualcomm.com>
Date:	Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:14:16 -0800
From:	Max Krasnyansky <maxk@...lcomm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] CPU isolation extensions

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 01:59:54 -0600 Paul Jackson <pj@....com> wrote:
> 
>> but hard real time is not my expertise
> 
> Speaking of which..  there is the -rt tree.  Have those people had a look
> at the feature, perhaps played with the code?

Peter Z. and Steven R. sent me some comments, I believe I explained and addressed them.
Ingo's been quite. Probably too busy.

btw It's not an RT feature per se. It certainly helps RT but removing all the latency
sources from isolated CPUs. But in general it's just "reducing kernel overhead on some CPUs"
kind of feature.

Max 
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