Wednesday 24 May 2006 02:01, Lee Revell: > On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 01:55 +0200, Wolfgang Woehl wrote: > > Damn, it doesn't make sense to me. If I can configure the kernel to be > > or not to be preemptible then what is the separation good for? Isn't > > overhead because of preemption the only price tag? > > You are confusing preemption (which improves the performance of realtime > processes) with the permission to run realtime processes at all > (addressed by the realtime LSM, pam, or set_rtlimits). Err, no. I doubt the need for this restriction. A campus server kernel wouldn't be configured for preemption, a dedicated workstation would be. Why put another roadblock in the way? -- Wolfgang
