The realtime preemption pull request <img src="https://lwn.net/images/conf/2024/ms/rt-pull-sm.png" alt="[pull request]" align="right"> On September 19, Thomas Gleixner delivered the pull request for the realtime preemption enablement patches to Linus Torvalds — in printed form, wrapped in gold, with a ribbon, as Torvalds had requested. It was a significant milestone, marking the completion of a project that required 20 years of effort. Congratulations are due to everybody involved. Torvalds https://git.kernel.org/linus/baeb9a7d8b60 the pull request the following morning. https://lwn.net/Articles/990985/