On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 19:14 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi there. > > In the past, there were some problems with the PREEMPT option of the > kernel and PowerPC and I remember that BenH just recommended that we > disabled it when compiling kernels from his tree (gee, that was quite > some time ago). > > Does anybody know what the current status is?
I've been running kernels with CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y for a long time without any problems. It also does seem to help a lot for interactivity vs. disk I/O. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
