Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030462AbVKIAV7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:21:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030463AbVKIAV4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:21:56 -0500 Received: from mail10.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.191]:43756 "EHLO mail10.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030459AbVKIAVz (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:21:55 -0500 From: Con Kolivas To: Calin Szonyi Subject: Re: New Linux Development Model Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:23:51 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 Cc: jerome lacoste , Edgar Hucek , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <436C7E77.3080601@ed-soft.at> <5a2cf1f60511060543m5edc8ba8i920a3005b95a556d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511091123.52092.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 878 Lines: 21 On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:11 am, caszonyi@rdslink.ro wrote: > There are other reasons for using a new kernel. One of them is > interactivity. In the days of 2.4 one could achieve decent interactivity > for the desktop using preempt and low latency patches. For 2.6 > interactivity was a real issue (possibly because of the new development > model). Eh? Where are the bug reports for this? I've only seen better interactivity and responsiveness with 2.6. The only time I've seen bad behaviour repeatedly on forums and elsewhere has been due to misconfigured IDE drivers not using DMA and X servers still reniced to -10. Cheers, Con - 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/