F7 Plan (draft)

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 12/19/06, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 06:10:56PM -0500, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
>  > > 21. Real-time kernel
>  > > Accountable: Ingo Molnar, Dave Jones
>  > >
>  > > Because fake-time kernels are so last year
>  >
>  > Would love to have for OLPC.  We're already hitting apps that can't keep
>  > up without some real time support.
>
> Details ?  The -rt stuff isn't a silver bullet. If apps are doing
> dumb things, they need to be fixed instead of hoping some kernel
> tweaks will 'fix' them.
>

A patch to the kernel profiling that says "Application [fill in data
here] is doing dumb thing. Don't expect the kernel to fix."


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