Hi Andrew, i'm a user of a 2.4.22 kernel patched with the preemption patches plus your Low Latency patches. It works very nicely for audio applications [like jackd, ardour, etc...]. Looking into the config menu of the 2.6.0 kernel i only find a "preemptible kernel" config option. Your low latency patches seem not to be included. Do you have plans of including your patches in the 2.6.x kernel? I heard rumors about merging the preemptible and your LL patches since they seem to go very nicely together.. Any truth to that? Thanks i.a. for any thoughts and insights. Flo P.S.: this mail is cc'ed to the linux audio user/developers list because i think the people there are very interested in these issues, too.. -- music: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/9/florianschmidt.htm