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Subject: Re: RT patch acceptance
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 22:01 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:29:35PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > I would assume that the distros would ship without PREEMPT enabled
> > because it was (and probably still is) considered unstable. 
> 
> In addition to that it is slow too due to much increased locking
> overhead.

Doesn't this imply that distros will need to ship different kernels for
their desktop and server oriented products anyway?

Lee

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