On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 22:58, Marius Groeger wrote: > FWIW, CONFIG_PREEMPT _does_ reduce the avarage scheduling latency. > It's still sort of soft real-time, but the effect is measurable (I'm > talking 2.4 kernels here, BTW) However, on desktop systems you > probably don need to worry about this, but for an embedded system you > may like the slightly improved reaction time.
Well... average latency is mostly meaningless, only peak latency really matters for anything that need some sort of real time imho... Ben.