Should we be using CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL in the Fedora kernel?

Ingo Molnar mingo at elte.hu
Sat Mar 24 21:48:48 UTC 2007


* Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev at redhat.com> wrote:

> > actually, the current code works pretty well - and has been brought 
> > to the extreme via PREEMPT_RT. It boots fine on SMP and elsewhere, 
> > and it finds us tons of bugs in every kernel release.
> 
> If you say so, I take it back.

CONFIG_PREEMPT alone is probably not worth having: it doesnt bring 
enough to the table, has overhead and doesnt satisfy the low-latency 
users. PREEMPT_RT is much nicer - but quite a bit more intrusive =B-)

	Ingo




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