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The Grumpy Editor's 2008 retrospective

The Grumpy Editor's 2008 retrospective

Posted Jan 8, 2009 6:34 UTC (Thu) by az (guest, #46701)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's 2008 retrospective

Your editor should know by now that expecting deterministic merge times for realtime patches is a sure path to disappointment; latencies in this area are always higher than one would like. In this case, the realtime developers got stuck in a high-priority interrupt (taking over the x86 architecture) with the result that realtime work got preempted and suffered from severe starvation.

*stabs Jonathan*


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