I'm not all that familiar with the kernel development process, so forgive me is this is a naive or rude questions, but does anyone know if Andrew or Ingo are releasing patch sets for the 2.6.10 release version? I was having a lot of trouble with my touchpad and wifi card with the 2.6.10-rc kernels, but they seem to work find with 2.6.10, and it'd be great to have the best of both worlds. On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 08:58:08PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 00:07 +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > Yes, of course the RT kernel is a lot better, but I agree with Jack that > it's important to have good realtime support in the base kernel. > Previous Linux kernels were much worse than the proprietary > alternatives, so having a kernel release that's as good or better is a > huge milestone. Can you imagine Linux owning the server space the way > it does now, if you had to patch the kernel to get superior performance? > Linux got huge in this area because you could take it and install apache > out of the box on a spare machine and get better server performance than > the proprietary guys. > > Anyway, everyone's goal is to get the performance of the RT kernel out > of the stock kernel anyway. So we should figure out what else needs to > go upstream before 2.6.11. I think in order for it to get much better > we need the softirq and hardirq threading stuff upstream and turning the > might_sleeps into preemption points - IOW the original aspects of VP. > > I would still like to see a comparison between RT and DESKTOP. I think > it's reasonable that we could get PREEMPT_DESKTOP like performance out > of the vanilla kernel very soon. > > Lee >
