Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 01:55:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 01:55:50 -0500 Received: from [195.66.192.167] ([195.66.192.167]:61960 "EHLO Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 01:55:36 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: vda To: Robert Love , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fully preemptible kernel Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 08:54:50 -0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: kpreempt-tech@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <1007930466.11789.2.camel@phantasy> In-Reply-To: <1007930466.11789.2.camel@phantasy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01121008545000.01013@manta> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 09 December 2001 18:41, Robert Love wrote: > Updated preempt-kernel patches for 2.4.16 and 2.4.17-pre6 are now > available at: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/preempt-kernel > > patches for various previous kernels are there as well, but not in sync > with this release. > > This patch enables a fully preemptible linux kernel -- userspace > processes are preemptible by higher priority tasks, even if running in > kernel space. Nice gains in response _and_ throughput are observed. > > The main change in this release is support for the SH architecture. > i386 and ARM are also supported. I reported a problem with preemptible 2.4.13 and Samba server (oops, problems with creation of files from win clients). Is this issue addressed? -- vda - 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/