RedShift wrote:



Joe Giles wrote:

Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote:

Ok - this time I'll build based on the current Arch config, which should help and add a devfs warning to the install too. Anyone have suggestions about which pre-empt we should be using? I have been using the not-voluntary one as I believe that is the one applied by ck and so the advantageous one (i.e. the point of the patchset :)) - and how about kexec?...

Phil

James Rayner wrote:

ArchCK is a derivation of the CK patchset that is taking a similar
path to the old CKO patchset. It aims to include a variety of popular
features and updates that have not currently made it to the vanilla
kernel. Con Kolivas' CK patchset is the core of ArchCK and wouldnt
exist without it (thanks Con).

Patch (Apply patch to 2.6.13):
 http://iphitus.loudas.com/arch/ck/patch-2.6.13-archck2.bz2
Website:
 http://iphitus.loudas.com/archck.php

Changes from 2.6.13-archck1:
 updated to 2.6.13-ck2
 updated acpi patch to 2/9
 updated reiser4 to reiser4 from 2.6.13-mm1

Arch Linux Users, archck is available in the community repository, to
get it, add the community repo and pacman -S kernel26archck. It
should be updated sometime this week

If anyone has any issues with this, drop me a line.
Enjoy,

James Rayner
/iphitus



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I agree. The Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop) (Third option) seems to offer better desktop responsiveness. I haven't extensively tested this, but I have heard it does make a difference.


Preemptible kernel? You mean the current kernel that we use is cooperative???

Well, there are currently 3 options in the kernel config:

No Forced Preemption (Server)
Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop)
Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)

The third option from what I hear offers the best desktop experiance as the kernel will allow other process to have CPU time even thought another process with either a higher priority or was first in the sched is waiting for processing.


The kexec system call feature is interesting. I would like to test that more too, but have no clue how to yet. I always thought it would be cool to unload and reload kernels without rebooting :)


Whoah, that gets me horny.

Yeah, Me too :)


I will try to read up on it. However, it is experimental and not sure what Arch's policy is on experimental support for features in the kernel.


You can always make yourself a pkgbuild...


Just my 2 cents..

Joe

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