Re: RT patch acceptance

Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-31T00:14:43Z

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