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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