Should we be using CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL in the Fedora kernel?

Jon Masters jcm at redhat.com
Wed Mar 21 19:04:02 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 15:01 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> I get the feeling that some of the bugs we are seeing is because
> we have enabled CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL. I remember looking at the
> code when it came out and thinking it was too scary to enable,
> so I never did in my own vanilla kernels.

Well, it's likely to remain around upstream so surely it's better to fix
bugs and feed them back upstream than ignore this, it'll just be painful
later on IMO :-)

Jon.





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