On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Niels Mayer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is this just a side-effect of modern linux kernels adopting the > preempt/rt patches: > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/2010/linuxcon-brasil/pt/gleixner ? > Does this mean, in the future, that separate realtime kernels as > provided for Fedora/Ubuntu distros will no longer be needed? And that > we'll be able to configure our systems for RT usage as needed? the mainstream kernel has merged *parts* of the RT patch. it does not have all of it, and the last time i heard gleixner talk about it (last fall, in portland, OR at the linux plumbers conf) he felt that it unlikely that it would ever all be merged. configuring your system for RT usage has ABSOLUTELY ZERO to do with the presence or absence of the RT patch. RT scheduling, mlock and other features used by RT applications are all available and usable on all modern linux kernels. the RT patch just makes them work better, on some machines, some of the time. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
