The PREEMPT_RT patchset is configurable.  I believe the default is
PREEMPT_DESKTOP which is what most MV CGE customers use.  Another config
options is PREEMPT_NONE but I believe its usage is rare.

Mark


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Patrick MacCartee <pmaccar...@mvista.com>wrote:

> Will these be added in a way that makes them easy to remove? Many, >95%
> don't use Preempt RT in Linux as it impacts network performance and makes
> things very temperamental.  You would think people would just disable this
> RT, but when trying to isolate issues it adds another variable to the mix.
> I believe Yocto has a way of adding and removing RT patches that is some
> what straight forward and preferable based on feedback from OEM's.
>
> Just a thought,
> Patrick
>
>
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Mike Holmes <mike.hol...@linaro.org>wrote:
>
>> In LNG you could end up with an interesting mix of preempt RT and
>> deadline patches making the analysis and benchmarking interesting to
>> interpret.
>> In addition there are discussions about adding zero overhead linux (ZOL)
>> like features.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> On Friday, May 17, 2013 6:08:20 AM UTC-4, David Rusling wrote:
>>
>>> Amit,
>>>     an interesting proposal.  I think that most of the LNG steering
>>> committee is on this alias, but just in case, I'm adding them to it...
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>   Amit Kucheria
>>>  17 May 2013 10:15
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> As part of our investigations into the Linux scheduler we've
>>> interacted with Juri Lelli at the University of Pisa (cc'ed) who is
>>> part of a group that is working on a DEADLINE scheduler[1] for
>>> Linux[2].
>>>
>>> While we're coming at this from a power managment angle[3], I suspect
>>> that LEG and LNG already have real-world usecases that would benefit
>>> from deadline scheduler found in other RTOSes.
>>>
>>> So I think it makes sense to merge Juri's tree into linux-linaro going
>>> forward to allow easier experimentation. Does LEG and LNG have any
>>> interest in this at this point?
>>>
>>> Juri has expressed an interest in maintaining a current branch of the
>>> code that could be merged into our monthly release. In return, real
>>> world usecases will improve his chances of getting the code merged
>>> into mainline.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Amit
>>>
>>> [1] http://retis.sssup.it/?q=node/**35<http://retis.sssup.it/?q=node/35>
>>> [2] 
>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/**11/373<https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/11/373>
>>> [3] Mostly involving discussions at this point, no real engineering
>>> effort invested yet
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>
>
>
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