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reinob	2015-07-21 , 06:29
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Originally Posted by marmistrz

According to this link [1], preempt kernel is slower than generic. Why are we building the kernel as preempt? Do we really need low latency?

[1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/12666...-realtime-ones

It's usually recommended for desktop systems (and mobile fits the definition), as low latency is considered more important than high troughput (on a server you'd have it the other way).

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