From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Robert Love <rml@novell.com>, Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Preempt? (was Re: Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive (SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA))
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 00:16:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097036205.1359.19.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41636FCF.3060600@pobox.com>
On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 00:08, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Preempt will always be something I ask people to turn off when reporting
> driver bugs; it just adds too much complicated mess for zero gain.
I agree that many people are using preempt who should not be. Currently
the Kconfig help recommends enabling preempt for a "desktop or embedded
system". Maybe we should lose the desktop part. 99% of users do not
need the low latencies that require preempt, and those users know who
they are.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-06 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-10-06 0:30 ` Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive (SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA) Gianluca Cecchi
2004-10-06 0:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06 1:00 ` Preempt? (was Re: Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive (SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA)) Roland Dreier
2004-10-06 1:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06 1:28 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06 1:32 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06 1:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06 1:52 ` Robert Love
2004-10-06 1:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06 2:02 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06 2:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06 2:28 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06 3:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-06 3:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06 3:43 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06 3:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06 4:05 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-06 4:22 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06 15:16 ` Aleksandar Milivojevic
2004-10-06 4:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-06 4:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06 4:16 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-10-06 4:26 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06 4:46 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-06 6:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06 6:16 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-06 13:38 ` Jeff Sipek
2004-10-06 4:12 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-06 3:34 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06 2:07 ` Robert Love
2004-10-06 2:30 ` Nick Piggin
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