Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266547AbUIOQO2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:14:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266725AbUIOQN4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:13:56 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:20145 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266547AbUIOQLg (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:11:36 -0400 Message-ID: <414869AB.5070307@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:11:23 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Revell CC: Ricky Beam , Zilvinas Valinskas , Erik Tews , linux-kernel mailing list Subject: Re: 2.6.9 rc2 freezing References: <1095263296.2406.141.camel@krustophenia.net> <41486691.3080202@pobox.com> <1095264408.2406.148.camel@krustophenia.net> In-Reply-To: <1095264408.2406.148.camel@krustophenia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 550 Lines: 17 Lee Revell wrote: > Anyway, if you are running anything on your server that breaks under > PREEMPT, it will break anyway as soon as you add another processor. Incorrect. The spinlock behavior is very different. That's why we had net stack problems in the past under preempt but not under SMP. Jeff - 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/