Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Re: And kernel 2.4 ? Was: Re: RFD: Audio Needs for Kernel 2.5+
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2000 - 20:20:37 EEST
>Anyway as for the broken implementation:
>as Ingo said in some cases you can decompose the code, but other code sections
>have long execution paths by design and you need this preemption "hack".
>see old linux-kernel messages.
>Plus this feature is already used in some sections of the kernel where the
>developers know that the kernel might stay in kernel space for very long time.
Sure, but Linus is "the boss", and he has said that he wants to see
these code sections *re*designed so that they don't block interrupts
for so long. End of story. Unfortunately.
--p
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