Subject: Re: Preemptive Kernel and MPC8xx ???

From: Jaap-Jan Boor <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 17:23:06 +0100

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 16:08, Steven Scholz wrote:
> Marius Groeger wrote:
>
> > AFAIK, you can pretty much drop the low-latency patch in favor of
> > using the lock-breaking patch. It is also available from Robert Love
> > at the cited home page.
>
> Rob Love wrote me:
>
>  >>Is it correct that your lock-break does basicly the same as Andrew Morton's
>  >>low-latency patches? Where is the big difference?
>  >
>  > Yes, basically the same thing.  Lock-break is a version of low-latency
>  > that is "optimized" for use with the preemptive kernel.
>  >
>  > You might as well just use low-latency, as Andrew is keeping that more
>  > up to date.
>
> And that's what I noticed when looking and the download pages...
>
> That leaves three options:
>
>  > 	(a) Use only preempt-kernel
>  > 	(b) Use only low-latency
>  > 	(c) Use preempt-kernel + low-latency
>
> Right?

Yes, I use (c)

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