Re: [linux-audio-user] Realtime not working on Debian testing... why?

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Wed Nov 15 2006 - 01:11:14 EET

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 15:56 -0700, Glenn Greenfield wrote:
> Yes - a kernel configured for realtime preemtion.
>
> $ zcat /proc/config.gz |grep PREEMPT_RT
> CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y

Actually no. This is a common misconception.

The point of realtime preemption is to improve realtime performance.
The point of PAM and RT limits and the realtime LSM is to allow non-root
users to run realtime applications.

The two have nothing to do with each other.

Lee
Received on Wed Nov 15 04:15:03 2006

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