Well, this settles it for me

Posted Sep 7, 2009 22:24 UTC (Mon) by mingo (subscriber, #31122)
In reply to: Well, this settles it for me by einstein
Parent article: BFS vs. mainline scheduler benchmarks and measurements

As Linus has said, a desktop linux presence is vital to its viability, so optimizing desktop interactivity ought to be a very high priority.

It is. See for example this recent discussion on lkml. That discussion and those (non-trivial) patches were all about desktop latencies - and it's all part of v2.6.30 now.