Re: WOLK-4.9s and preempt/low latency
Kerin Millar <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 13:54, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > I just installed the WOLK-4.9s (server) source via a Gentoo ebuild. I am > building the kernel for a small SOHO router/firewall/bard machine. I noticed > that this kernel has prempt turned on by default and also that it is tweaked > for desktop rather than server. Is this correct for the server edition of > WOLK, or should I shut these things off? For the time being, I have built Yes you should. I wouldn't recommend pre-emptive kernel support for a server, and enabling the Server Scheduler tweaks is (suprise) a suitable approach ;) I would also stick to a 100Hz scheduler timeslice (unless you _really_ know what you are doing). For the record, the low-latency option is enabled by default in WOLK (it is not a selectable) which is fine. As you are using Gentoo, you may be interested to know that there is a somewhat more flexible ebuild here: http://arnolds.dhs.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Gentoo/sys-kernel/wolk-sources/wolk-sources-4.9-r1.ebuild?rev=1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup This supports extra USE flags for the so-called workstation patches. Of these, you may find the wolk-ide flag to be of interest if you use an IDE system as that enables a newer IDE layer which has been backported from later 2.4 kernels. Consider it to be somewhat experimental though. To be honest, I think the current release in the 4.10 branch is a lot nicer. You can get an incremental patch here: http://wolk.sf.net/tmp which will apply to clean 4.9 sources. I'm running 4.10-pre7 on my server now and I love it. Here's a mirror of the ChangeLog: http://www.recruit2recruit.net/kerframil/WOLK-CHANGELOG Regards, --Kerin Francis Millar ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ WOLK - Working Overloaded Linux Kernel [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wolk-devel