Thanks Tom! That's just the info I've been looking for. If I may ask, what is 
the source of this information? 

Robert Crawford

On Friday 28 March 2003 09:09 am, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On Thursday March 27 2003 10:53 pm, flacycads wrote:
> > I found both the multimedia 2.4.21 rpms and srpm in the regular
> > ibiblio contribs mirror. Does anyone know if those indeed have the
> > preemptive patch,
>
>    kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.16mdk-1-1mdk   Description
>
>   "This kernel includes patches useful for multmedia purposes like:
> preemption, low-latency and the ability for processes to transfer
> their capabilities. The preemtion patches allow a task to be
> preempted anywhere within the kernel, using spinlocks as markers for
> non-preemptibility regions. The resulting system response is greatly
> increased, with measured average latencies under 1ms. Andrew Morton's
> low-latency patches fix the remaining points in the kernel that cause
> latency. The setpcap patch allows suid root processess to transfer
> capabilities to non-root processess, and so making it possible for
> user processes to run with realtime priority."


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