Ah yes, I suppose this is because TUX uses per-cpu data as a replacement
for spinlocks. Patches that use per-cpu shared data have to be
preempt-aware. Ingo didn't know this when he wrote TUX since preempt didn't
exist at that time and didn't even appear to be on the horizon. He's
certainly aware of it now.
> OTOH the low latency patch plays quite well
> with tux. As said, I have no anti-preempt agenda,
> I just need for whatever solution I use to work,
> and not crash programs and services we use.
Right, and of course that requires testing - sometimes a lot of it. This one
is a 'duh' that escaped notice. temporarily. It probably would have been
caught sooner if we'd started serious testing/discussion sooner.
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