Re: heads-up: preempt kernel and tux NO-GO

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
27 Nov 2001 23:27:32 -0500


On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 20:17, J Sloan wrote:

> So, there is an issue with tux and the preempt
> patch - I've got big plans for tux atm, so for
> now I will have to do without preempt -

Tux makes heavy use of per-CPU data and some of it is undoubtedly not
preempt-safe. It is probably trivial to fix but would take some
familiarity with the codebase...Ingo would know best. Its not on the
top of my todo list, but I will look into it.

Robert Love

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