Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] replace CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE with CONFIG_PREEMPT

2011-09-04 Thread Philip Prindeville
On 9/2/11 2:09 PM, Michael Büsch wrote: > On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 00:55:54 +0200 > Luka Perkov wrote: > >> Also in linux-2.6.39.4/kernel/Kconfig.preempt you will see for >> CONFIG_PREEMPT: >> >> Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop or >> embedded system with latency require

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] replace CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE with CONFIG_PREEMPT

2011-09-04 Thread Michael Büsch
On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:11:08 -0700 Philip Prindeville wrote: > > And finally, I'm not really convinced that any of the routers/APs > > that OpenWRT supports have "latency requirements in the milliseconds range". > > I'd rather say throughput matters a _lot_ more than a millisecond of latency > > f

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] replace CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE with CONFIG_PREEMPT

2011-09-04 Thread Michael Büsch
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 01:06:02 +0200 Luka Perkov wrote: > > What are you actually trying to fix with enabling preemption? I didn't > > really get it by reading your mail. > > Kernel oops that I described. Yeah. And that is completely unacceptable. > CONFIG_PREEMPT must be enabled; don't know what

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] replace CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE with CONFIG_PREEMPT

2011-09-04 Thread Philip Prindeville
On 9/4/11 11:43 AM, Michael Büsch wrote: > On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:11:08 -0700 > Philip Prindeville wrote: >>> And finally, I'm not really convinced that any of the routers/APs >>> that OpenWRT supports have "latency requirements in the milliseconds range". >>> I'd rather say throughput matters a _

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] replace CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE with CONFIG_PREEMPT

2011-09-04 Thread Luka Perkov
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 08:47:46PM +0200, Michael Büsch wrote: > On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 01:06:02 +0200 > Luka Perkov wrote: > > > What are you actually trying to fix with enabling preemption? I didn't > > > really get it by reading your mail. > > > > Kernel oops that I described. > > Yeah. And that