On Mon, 11 May 2009, Denis Borisevich wrote:
> 2009/5/10 Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]>:
> > On Sun, 10 May 2009, Denis Borisevich wrote:
> >
> >> Here is the wiki page of the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT patch
> >> http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.ph/Main_Page
> >
> > one more RT-related question on this list and, if i want to take
> > this further, i'll move to the actual RT mailing list.
> >
> > if i wanted to start playing with the RT patch, is there any
> > obvious drawback to adding RT capability to a normal system of
> > mine? would that allow me to experiment with RT *if i chose to*,
> > but still allow the system to continue running normally if i
> > didn't? thanks.
>
> It depends on what do you mean by "normal system of yours". As for
> myself I use Fedora Core 9 with RT enabled kernel as my system at
> work and didn't notice any differences between normal and RT-enabled
> kernel while I surf the web, listen to music and do other things not
> related to my RT work.
that's what i was talking about -- adding RT support and still
having what appears to be a normal system.
> But if there will be any difference you notice, you can always
> restart you system and load normal kernel;) I'm talking about
> CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT patch, not sure about other real-time solutions -
> haven't played with them, sorry.
that's fine, it was the PREEMPT patch i was talking about.
rday
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