Messages in this thread | | | From | Roland Dreier <> | Date | Tue, 05 Oct 2004 18:00:16 -0700 | Subject | Preempt? (was Re: Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive (SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA)) |
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Jeff> I strongly recommend disabling kernel preemption. It is a Jeff> hack that hides bugs.
Why do you say that? Preempt seems to be the cleanest way to low latency, and if anything it exposes locking bugs and races rather than hiding anything.
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