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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ever heard of firewalling, retard? Why would they want to allow ICMP responses? There's no reason for it on a high-traffic web server. Try pinging Slashdot.org.

  2. Re:Dilbert vs Open Source by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    BIG FUCKING WALRUS of course!

  3. Andrew Morton is a scally by ideut · · Score: -1, Troll

    Andrew Morton is a well known troll on lkml. It's a well known fact that he is always spouting off with ill-informed opinions without anything positive to add in terms of code. Why doesn't this man just step back and let the big boys like ESR get on with their work?

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  4. hahaha fag by UU7 · · Score: -1, Troll

    ya, you

  5. Re:bsd fully sucks by rtaylor · · Score: 1, Troll

    > it does not support ./configure

    Quite funny. Wouldn't that be ./configure doesn't support BSD? Afterall, it's configure that has the interest in 'configuring' on as many platforms as possible -- not BSDs job to look and act like the next guy.

    Anyhow.. Back to compiling Postgresql and friends under Windows using that ./configure thingy.

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