Re: 2.4.18 Preempt Freezeups

[Mikael Pettersson]

Robert Love writes:
 > Chances are the binary win4lin module just needs to be recompiled
 > against a preemptive kernel.
 > 
 > Of course, it could need some specific preempt-safe work but more than
 > likely it just needs to be recompiled.  Binary modules most be
 > specifically preempt-kernel aware, like they need be SMP-kernel aware.

"more than likely": that's perhaps true for your average NIC/soundcard/
whatever driver, but things that poke the processor itself (like my
performance-monitoring counters driver) really do depend on not being
preempted. In my view, CONFIG_SMP is a minor triviality compared to
CONFIG_PREEMPT ...

/Mikael