Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Oct 2020 14:19:39 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] kernel: allow to configure PREEMPT_NONE, PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY on kernel command line |
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On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 02:04:01PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> > > Many people are still relying on pre built distribution kernels and so > distributions have to provide mutliple kernel flavors to offer different > preemption models. Most of them are providing PREEMPT_NONE for typical > server deployments and PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY for desktop users.
Is there actually a benefit to NONE? We were recently talking about removing it.
The much more interesting (runtime) switch (IMO) would be between VOLUNTARY and PREEMPT.
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