Re: Preempt? (was Re: Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive(SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA))

[Robert Love]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 21:40 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> And with preempt you're still hiding stuff that needs fixing.  And when 
> it gets fixed, you don't need preempt.
> 
> Therefore, preempt is just a hack that hides stuff that wants fixing anyway.

This actually sounds like the argument for preempt, and against
sprinkling cond_resched() hacks all over the kernel.

	Robert Love


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