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Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 13:42:22 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] ultra-scalable O(1) SMP and UP scheduler
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On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Roger Larsson wrote:

> The preemtion kernel adds protection to per process data... And it is
> not (yet) updated to handle the O(1) scheduler!

yes - what i meant was that there is no conceptual problem with having
both the preemption kernel and an O(1) scheduler. There are practical
problems though, because both change similar code areas, albeit for
different and orthogonal reasons.

	Ingo

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