[linux-audio-user] Problems appling realtime preempt patch to 2.6.12 (general)

[Iain Duncan]

>>I've just joined the list and it's pretty interesting.
>>Can someone tell me something about the differences between the
>>preempt patch from Ingo and the "Realtime Linux Security Module"?
>>I currently use the latter one and I'm quite satisfied as jack works
>>really fast. Perhaps one should try this way instead of the vanilla
>>kernel patch. There have to be pros and cons I'm interested in. Can
>>someone point them out? 
> 
> 
> The LSM and Ingo's patches are addressing 2 separate issues. Ingo's
> patch is working to minimize sources of latency in various code paths in
> the kernel. The rtlimits and the realtime-lsm are addressing the issue
> of providing a security model for realtime applications to get the
> capabilities they need to run in real-time. Ordinarilly these
> capabilities (CAP_SET_PCAP, mlockall(), and SCHED_FIFO()) are only
> accessible as root. rtlimits and the realtime-lsm provide infrastructure
> for allowing these capabilities to be granted to only a specified set of
> users/processes.

So am I correct in believing that the preempt patch is the one that 
makes a difference if I intend to run as root anyway? ( Yeah I know I'm 
not supposed to, but IMO my machine is just a synthesizer in disguise as 
a computer and I'll unplug the ethernet cable if I need to. )

Thanks
Iain