Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261857AbVEaAOn (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 20:14:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261847AbVEaAKq (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 20:10:46 -0400 Received: from 213-239-205-147.clients.your-server.de ([213.239.205.147]:12737 "EHLO mail.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261839AbVEaAGt (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 20:06:49 -0400 Subject: Re: RT patch acceptance From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: karim@opersys.com Cc: "Bill Huey (hui)" , Esben Nielsen , Nick Piggin , kus Kusche Klaus , James Bruce , Andi Kleen , Sven-Thorsten Dietrich , Ingo Molnar , dwalker@mvista.com, hch@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <429B9E85.2000709@opersys.com> References: <429B61F7.70608@opersys.com> <20050530223434.GC9972@nietzsche.lynx.com> <429B9880.1070604@opersys.com> <20050530224949.GE9972@nietzsche.lynx.com> <429B9E85.2000709@opersys.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: linutronix Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 02:07:25 +0200 Message-Id: <1117498045.14566.24.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 806 Lines: 22 On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 19:15 -0400, Karim Yaghmour wrote: > Sure, but like Andi said, general increased responsiveness is not exclusive > to PREEMPT_RT, and any effort to reduce latency is welcome. Nobody denies that, but thats no argument against a RT extension. > But wasn't the same said about the existing preemption code? Yet, most > distros ship with it disabled and some developers still feel that there > are no added benefits. One of the most disgusting arguments in this thread is "distros do XYZ". There is a lot of Linux beyond distros. tglx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/