Should we be using CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL in the Fedora kernel?
Ingo Molnar
mingo at elte.hu
Wed Mar 21 19:40:35 UTC 2007
* Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com> 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.
yes, we should keep it enabled - it's the default upstream and we havent
had PREEMPT_BKL related bugs for a really long time.
in fact i had more !PREEMPT_BKL bugs than PREEMPT_BKL bugs. (BKL
spinlock recursion for example)
Ingo
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