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Re: radeon graphic speed regression 2.4 -> 2.6 test7 benh



On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:11:16AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> I doubt that even a working CONFIG_PREEMPT would make any good
> difference. Kernel preemption is just a crappy feature to please
> lame slashdotters
> 
> Ben.

Are you joking?  I have heard that it is a pretty good feature for
audio recording and other applications that need as close to real-time
performance as possible (I guess live video processing, recording,
etc...)

Why do you say it is a crappy feature?

POB.
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