Preemptive kernel and vm management in 2.4.9

From: Samuel T Ting (sting@u.washington.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 20 2001 - 19:19:46 EST

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Hello all,

Lately, I have been hearing a lot about preemptive kernels on the list.
I have just started looking into kernel internals, so could somebody
explain what kernel preemption is?

Also, how does virtual memory management in 2.4.9 work?

Thanks!

Samuel Ting

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