Andrew Morton And The Low-Latency Kernel Patch

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 16, 2002 @12:51PM 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."

1 of 151 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Motivation via Botching by mbrod · 2002-02-16 17:42 · Score: 0, Redundant

I found this quite interesting -

"One hot tip: if you spot a bug which is being ignored, send a completely botched fix to the mailing list. This causes thousands of kernel developers to rally to the cause. Nobody knows why this happens. (I really have deliberately done this several times. It works)."