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From: Ian Duggan <ian@ianduggan.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.18 Preempt Freezeups
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 00:38:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C91B30D.A887A033@ianduggan.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C9153A7.292C320@ianduggan.net> <E16lhBg-0002Yc-00@the-village.bc.nu>


Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > Stock 2.4.18+preempt+mki-adapter+win4lin
> >       - Very frequent, and also repeatable every time I
> >               try to start win4lin.
> 
> pre-empt is almost certainly going to break things like win4lin

What is required for preempt beyond "SMP safe" code? I thought the whole
idea was to make the preemptions transparent to other code by utilizing
the SMP critical regions?

-- Ian

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ian Duggan                    ian@ianduggan.net
                              http://www.ianduggan.net

  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-15  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-15  1:51 2.4.18 Preempt Freezeups Ian Duggan
2002-03-15  1:54 ` Robert Love
2002-03-15  8:36   ` Ian Duggan
2002-03-15 14:25     ` Robert Love
2002-03-15 16:11       ` Mikael Pettersson
2002-03-15 19:11         ` Robert Love
2002-03-16  0:40           ` yodaiken
2002-03-16  1:46             ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-16  3:12               ` yodaiken
2002-03-17  0:33             ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-17  1:13               ` yodaiken
2002-03-17  1:14                 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-17  1:54                   ` yodaiken
2002-03-17  2:08                     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-17 21:17                     ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-15 14:30     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-15 21:36       ` Ian Duggan
2002-03-15  2:11 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-15  8:38   ` Ian Duggan [this message]
2002-03-15  8:51     ` David S. Miller
2002-03-15 14:28     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 23:51       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-17  3:31         ` Alan Cox
2002-03-17 12:59           ` Dave Jones
2002-03-15  8:43   ` Daniel Phillips

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