On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 04:50:47PM +0200, Tobias Klausmann wrote:
On 02.04.19 16:43, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Tuesday 2019-04-02 16:35, Tobias Klausmann wrote:
of course the switch is nice to have, yet i wonder if having a -desktop kernel back (with the distinguished roles in the installer) would be an option, to tune it even more for an improved user experience. Seasoned users can switch between -default and -desktop by choosing the right kernel package (or even install them side by side and boot the right bootloader entry). Just an idea :) The current -default is what was once -desktop. Kind of. The "server-ish" k-default does not exist any longer.
Well it has a way lower timer frequency (CONFIG_HZ) and if i am not mistaken it had (until the change by Ludwig) CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE, so for me the -default always looked more like the *old* -default flavor. Actually if i had the freedom to choose, i would even go with a -desktop-intel and -dektop-amd divided kernel.
I suppose the confusion here is caused by the fact that we switched to PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY from PREEMPT on Tumbleweed and at (almost) the same time we switched openSUSE-15.1 to PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY from PREEMPT_NONE (inherited from SLE15-SP1). Actually, there were also some architectures which had different value for historical reasons. See bsc#1125004 for details. For the record, there is already a request for an alternative kernel flavor with PREEMPT in bsc#1129966 (but with a different motivation than gaming). I can't really say if the difference is big enough to justify reintroducing an alternative flavor; in my use cases, I never observed any visible difference. Michal Kubecek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org