From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: it would be nice if redhat offered a kernel that was patched and compiled specifically for desktop use. it would make a real difference in perceived speed for the desktop user. i don't mean replacing the kernel, but offering it as an alternative like the smp kernel and others Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. compile new kernel with patches 2. watch speed difference 3. Additional info:
RHL9 is already intended to be tuned for desktop use. What kind of patches did you have in mind ? (the low latency patchkit is already included for example)
is the low latency patch compiled into the kernel, i know it's included in the sources, but i thought the default kernel was compiled without it i also like the preemptible patch a lot http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/
the low latency patches are compiled into all kernels. I'm not going to merge the preemptable patches; they provide little gain on top of lowlat (we've done the measurements) and in addition are not feasible on 2.4 kernels, it just changes too much of the fundamental assumptions of the code. In 2.5 kernels all those are (still) getting fixed, but in 2.4 it's just not doable.
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