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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