Re: Preempt? (was Re: Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive(SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA))

[Lee Revell]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 00:08, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Preempt will always be something I ask people to turn off when reporting 
> driver bugs; it just adds too much complicated mess for zero gain.

I agree that many people are using preempt who should not be.  Currently
the Kconfig help recommends enabling preempt for a "desktop or embedded
system".  Maybe we should lose the desktop part.  99% of users do not
need the low latencies that require preempt, and those users know who
they are.

Lee

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