From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Esben Nielsen <simlo@phys.au.dk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ArcNet and 2.6.8.1
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:57:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096048629.10831.4.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.05.10409240033480.21511-100000@da410.ifa.au.dk>
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 18:52, Esben Nielsen wrote:
> Oh well, I'll try to see if I can get time to make it stable with
> preemption on. Is preemption safe enough to ensure SMP safe or would I
> have to test on at least a hyperthreading machine as well?
>
In theory preempt safe should be SMP safe, but in practice it doesn't
always work this way. You need to test on an actual SMP system.
I am not sure that HT == SMP for your purposes either. ISTR some cases
with the VP patches where it broke on HT but not "real" SMP.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-24 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-23 15:08 ArcNet and 2.6.8.1 Esben Nielsen
2004-09-23 15:16 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-09-23 20:59 ` Esben Nielsen
2004-09-23 21:01 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-23 21:46 ` Esben Nielsen
2004-09-23 22:02 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-24 14:07 ` Esben Nielsen
2004-09-23 22:24 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-23 22:52 ` Esben Nielsen
2004-09-24 17:44 ` Martin Mares
2004-09-24 17:57 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-09-24 17:24 ` Joel Jaeggli
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