Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Alans example against preemtive kernel (Was: Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable) | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:18:47 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> This should be mostly OK for the preemptive kernel. Swapping the irq an= > d spin=20 > lock lines should be preferred. But I think that is the case in SMP too= > =2E..
You deadlock if you swap the two lines over. In this case for pre-empt you really have to go in and add non pre-emption places to the driver - 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/
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