This is great news. Linus has now added Robert Love's kernel preemption patch to the 2.5 tree!
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3989618385.html --cut-- "The addition of kernel preemption to the 2.5 tree is a substantial feature which will provide benefit to a range of uses," Love told LinuxDevices.com. "I'm happy to see the patch merged. It will be nice no longer having to keep the patch up-to-date, which has proved a bit of work in 2.5. I suspect, however, there is much work ahead now that preemption is integrated." "Further, this is just the beginning," Love added. "We can now work on tackling problems with long-held locks and suboptimal algorithms that delay kernel preemption for too long. We are off to a nice start." As a result of this addition to the kernel, it will become possible to enable kernel preemptibility (to improve the real-time responsiveness of the Linux kernel) via a simple configuration setting when building the kernel, CONFIG_PREEMPT -- much like enabling SMP, Love explained. --cut-- This is a good time to read the following old message: http://eca.cx/lad/2000/Jun/0272.html ... this is what I call progress! :) -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!
