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From: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Slub support with PREEMPT_RT ?
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:23:57 -0800
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On 11/17/2010 08:18 AM, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I am wondering why SLUB isn't supported with PREEMPT_RT ?
> I cannot find any info on that except the fact it is not working yet.
> What do we have to do in order to support it ?

Peter can answer this better than I can, but it has something to do with 
all the local_bh_disable() calls not being compatible with the goals of 
PREEMPT_RT - if I remember correctly.


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Darren Hart
Yocto Linux Kernel