Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262101AbUCQWAn (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:00:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262108AbUCQWAn (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:00:43 -0500 Received: from peabody.ximian.com ([130.57.169.10]:7644 "EHLO peabody.ximian.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262101AbUCQWAm (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:00:42 -0500 Subject: Re: status of PREEMPT and SMP together? From: Robert Love To: Chris Friesen Cc: Linux kernel In-Reply-To: <4058C37F.8070409@nortelnetworks.com> References: <4058C37F.8070409@nortelnetworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1079560828.1435.24.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-1) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:00:28 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 695 Lines: 22 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 Is this still the case, or are they out of date?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 The comment is out of date.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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/