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Bug#311185: linux-2.6: Does the Debian Kernel Team still have concerns about CONFIG_PREEMPT ?



On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:24:15 +0100 maximilian attems wrote:

> hello francesco,
> 
> nice to read you! :)

Hi Maximilian!
Thanks for your quick reply.

> 
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 12:10:04AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> > By reading the bug log, I seem to understand that this is due to
> > stability concerns by the Debian Kernel Team.
> > Do these concerns still hold, now that more than 2 years have
> > passed?
> 
> well partialy
> but due to shipment in all major distribution volountary preemption
> is beeing reconsidered as well preempt_bkl
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2007/11/msg00496.html
> tickless kernel is an environmental necessity and thus enabled
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2007/12/msg00014.html
> hz_1000 needs a benchmark run.

This *sounds* encouraging.
Let's make the *Universal OS* suitable for intensive audio processing
too!  ;-)

[...]
> > If I read /usr/share/doc/jackd/README.Debian correctly, activating
> > preemption would benefit audio applications, especially:
> > 
> > |        3. use a 2.6 kernel with the realtime-preempt patch applied
> > 
> > I would love to see Debian as ready as possible for setting up an
> > audio processing workstation with minimal configuration (and without
> > recompiling kernels or other packages).
> 
> well the realtime patch already helped a lot,
> but is not ready for default.
> it is currently quite marketing hyped by rh and suse.

This means that I cannot use the realtime option with jackd on a pure
Debian box (testing or unstable), at present.
Do I understand correctly? 


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