Re: 2.4.18 Preempt Freezeups

Ian Duggan (ian@ianduggan.net)
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 00:38:37 -0800

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

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