Re: The status of Preemptible kernels on PowerPC?
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 19:14 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> In the past, there were some problems with the PREEMPT option of the
> kernel and PowerPC and I remember that BenH just recommended that we
> disabled it when compiling kernels from his tree (gee, that was quite
> some time ago).
>
> Does anybody know what the current status is?
I've been running kernels with CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y for a long
time without any problems. It also does seem to help a lot for
interactivity vs. disk I/O.
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