On 3/29/07, Russ Meyerriecks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all, I've been hacking on the Linux kernel all semester for my OS: Internals class. We are given full autonomy in picking our final programming project and I would love for mine to be /useful/ for the Linux kernel and not just a theoretical exorcise. If anybody has any bug fixes or features maybe they never got around to, and would be suitable for this situation, I would love to hear about them.
You could try to get scheduling latency down into the 1-2ms range without resorting to kernel preemption. rt_secret_rebuild is the main problem - it does not take any spinlocks, and is not a hot path, but runs in softirq context and is thus non-preemptible. Even if you don't succeed you'll acquire a deep knowledge of the networking code. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/