On Mon, 11 May 2009, Denis Borisevich wrote: > 2009/5/10 Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Sun, 10 May 2009, Denis Borisevich wrote: > > > >> Here is the wiki page of the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT patch > >> http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.ph/Main_Page > > > > one more RT-related question on this list and, if i want to take > > this further, i'll move to the actual RT mailing list. > > > > if i wanted to start playing with the RT patch, is there any > > obvious drawback to adding RT capability to a normal system of > > mine? would that allow me to experiment with RT *if i chose to*, > > but still allow the system to continue running normally if i > > didn't? thanks. > > It depends on what do you mean by "normal system of yours". As for > myself I use Fedora Core 9 with RT enabled kernel as my system at > work and didn't notice any differences between normal and RT-enabled > kernel while I surf the web, listen to music and do other things not > related to my RT work. that's what i was talking about -- adding RT support and still having what appears to be a normal system. > But if there will be any difference you notice, you can always > restart you system and load normal kernel;) I'm talking about > CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT patch, not sure about other real-time solutions - > haven't played with them, sorry. that's fine, it was the PREEMPT patch i was talking about. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rpjday Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================
