Re: radeon graphic speed regression 2.4 -> 2.6 test7 benh
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 23:11, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Weird. Maybe this (rather synthetic BTW - it doesn't feel slow doing
> > 'real' work, does it?) test tickles very bad behaviour in something
> > which has changed radically in the 2.6 kernel, the scheduler maybe?
> > CONFIG_PREEMPT might make a difference, pity it causes crashes and all
> > around weird behaviour about as soon as RAM is fully used.
>
> I doubt that even a working CONFIG_PREEMPT would make any good
> difference. Kernel preemption is just a crappy feature to please
> lame slashdotters
Maybe I'm a lame slashdotter then. :) In my experience it enhances
interactivity considerably.
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