On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 04:24, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > The low latency patches are already applied (well the non-defective parts > of it, a small subset of the lowlat patch had bugs). > The preemption patches are not applied, because they are defective for 2.4 > kernels. It's not safe to ship them simply because too much code > in 2.4 kernels depends on the principles > that the preempt patch changes and doesnt' get fixed by this > patch. DRM happens to be an example of such code fwiw ;) > > Greetings, > Arjan van de Ven Arjan, Thanks very much for the info. Very interesting. Right or wrong, this is a process we've been using since I got involved back at RH 7.3. At least at that time we could see measurable improvements in the system by applying these patches over the standard kernel. Maybe that's no longer true, or should be verified by someone. I think the root cause in this case is that I had been using a 2.4.19 kernel patched on my 7.3 and 8.0 systems, and when I Set up this 9.0 boot last week I just sort of did the same thing. I did not understand the linkage between the kernel and the DRI stuff at all, although it makes sense. I'm going to do some testing of the stock 9.0 kernel and see how it preforms for me. Thanks for the info! Thanks, -- Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
