Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

Alan Cox
2002-01-10T10:52:50Z

> That's true, but at some point in the future I think the work involved
> in making sure all new additional kernel code and all new intra-kernel
> interactions are "tuned" becomes larger than going preemptive all the
> way down.

It makes no difference to the kernel the work is the same in all cases
because you cannot pre-empt while holding a lock. Therefore you have to do
all the lock analysis anyway