Re: status of PREEMPT and SMP together?

From: Robert Love
Date: Wed Mar 17 2004 - 17:03:34 EST


On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 16:30, Chris Friesen wrote:

> Some of the Kconfig files (ppc/ppc64) seem to be of the opinion that
> there are races when both SMP and PREEMPT are enabled.
>
> Is this still the case, or are they out of date?

Hrm, I thought I sent Anton a patch to fix that.

The comment is out of date. Technically speaking, the potential
SMP+PREEMPT races exist on UP+PREEMPT, too.

Running SMP+PREEMPT on a 4-way here :-)

Robert Love


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