On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 01:32 -0400, Brian C. Huffman wrote: > I see that preemption is disabled in the Fedora Core kernels. What's > the reason for this? I've searched the lists and haven't seen any > definitive responses although the possibilities range from problems w/ > SMP to difficult to reproduce issues. > > I'm running a Toshiba Laptop and I'm currently in the process of > tweaking everything I can from a performance point of view (since > laptops are inherently less responsive than desktops) and I'd like to > know if 1) enabling this is dangerous from a distro pov preempt traditionally has been frowned upon because it has/had a history of hitting obscure bugs. Which one person won't care about but from a distro pov that's a problem > and 2) will I see a perceptible > latency reduction thus an increase in user experience? no. preempt doesnt' actually reduce latency THAT much. And the fedora kernels do have voluntary preempt enabled, which does help *worst case* latency. The reality is that even without the any form of preempt, the 2.6 kernel gets latencies on average well below 1ms. Now worst case is a different story (eg if you really really stress the box), but normally you don't do that to laptops. (and to be fair, from an interactive pov you have bigger problems if you do, you'll find that you are disk bound due to paging in that case which latency benchmarks don't care about but desktop experience does). 1ms is well below what a human can perceive so from a "user feel" point of view it all doesn't really matter.
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