From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 03 Aug 2004 20:40:54 +0100 (BST) Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([IPv6:::ffff:12.44.186.158]:37108 "EHLO orion.mvista.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 20:40:50 +0100 Received: from orion.mvista.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by orion.mvista.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i73Jemar002112; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:40:48 -0700 Received: (from jsun@localhost) by orion.mvista.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i73Jemum002111; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:40:48 -0700 Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:40:48 -0700 From: Jun Sun To: Song Wang Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, jsun@mvista.com Subject: Re: 2.6 preemptive kernel on mips Message-ID: <20040803124048.C1926@mvista.com> References: <20040803192244.5889.qmail@web40002.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20040803192244.5889.qmail@web40002.mail.yahoo.com>; from wsonguci@yahoo.com on Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:22:44PM -0700 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 5588 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: jsun@mvista.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:22:44PM -0700, Song Wang wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone tried to enable kernel preemption on > Linux mips 2.6 kernel (mips32) and test it? If > so, which version does it work? > > I tried on 2.6.3 and it didn't work. > Try the latest kernel. I checked preemption around 2.6.5 time and I believe all the obvious problems are fixed then. There are still some issues with both SMP and PREEMPT, but most people won't see them in normal cases. Jun