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Andrew Morton And The Low-Latency Kernel Patch

Posted by timothy on from the stealing-time-and-returning-it-like-new dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "KernelTrap has interviewed Linux kernel hacker Andrew Morton, author of the low-latency patch. Though his patch has received less attention than Robert Love's preemptible kernel patch (recently merged into the 2.5 kernel), it results in quite significantly lower latencies. The interview is quite interesting, delving into the low-latency patch, explaining how it works and the differences between it and the preempt patch. He also talks about his ext3 work, porting that journaling filesystem from the older stable 2.2 kernel to the current stable 2.4 kernel."

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  1. Re:KernelTrap & Drupal by spt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    really?

    >ping kerneltrap.org

    Pinging kerneltrap.org [208.56.185.179] with 32 bytes of data:

    Request timed out.
    Request timed out.
    Request timed out.
    Request timed out.

    Ping statistics for 208.56.185.179:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),