Subject: [PATCH] preemptive kernel
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kpreempt-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, george@mvista.com
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Date: 24 Jan 2002 04:39:00 -0500
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The patch makes the Linux kernel preemptible: higher priority processes
can preempt other lower priority processes, even if they are running in
kernel-mode.

An updated preemptive kernel for 2.5.3-pre4 is available here:

	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/preempt-kernel/v2.5/

And for 2.4.8-pre6 (and 2.4.18-pre6 + Ingo's O(1) Scheduler, J5):

	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/preempt-kernel/v2.4/

Most notably, the SMP instabilities under the new scheduler have been
solved.  This version is rock-solid on my testing in both 2.4 and 2.5
under UP and SMP.

Ingo Molnar offered some optimizations, some of which are in this
release and others which I will work on for future releases.

Enjoy,

	Robert love

Changes since 20020113 release:

- rename preempt_is_disabled to preempt_get_count (me)

- remove preempt_prefetch, it does more harm than good (Ingo Molnar)

- optimize preempt_enable (George Anzinger, Ingo Molnar)

- better locking in sched.c (me)

- fix race on fork (Ingo Molnar)

- fix mismatched locking in new O(1) migration code (me)

- use BUG_ON instead of BUG where applicable (me)
  	o for 2.4, add BUG_ON macro

- update Documentation/preempt_locking.txt (me)

- misc clean up (me)

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