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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
To: hawkes@sgi.com, Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
	Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>, Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] ia64: simplify and fix udelay()
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:08:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602150908.k1F98dg02934@unix-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060214184017.20492.48141.sendpatchset@tomahawk.engr.sgi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060213183344.21339.33094.sendpatchset@tomahawk.engr.sgi.com>

hawkes@sgi.com wrote on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 10:40 AM
> a preemption and migration to another CPU during the
> while-loop

Off topic from the subject line a bit, but related: how many Altix
SN2 customers in the field turn on CONFIG_PREEMPT? Redhat EL4 doesn't
turn on preempt, SuSE SLES9 and SLES10 beta don't turn it on either.
Is there a real benefit of turning that option on for SN2?

- Ken


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-15  9:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-13 18:33 [PATCH] ia64: simplify and fix udelay() hawkes
2006-02-13 21:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-02-14 18:40 ` hawkes
2006-02-15  9:08 ` Chen, Kenneth W [this message]
2006-02-15 14:56   ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-15 15:08   ` Jack Steiner

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