Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Preempt switchable. | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 21 Mar 2003 14:55:55 -0500 |
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On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 14:48, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
> would it be possible to turn on/off CONFIG_PREEMPT at runtime, eg. via > sysctl ?
Sure, make a sysctl and check it in preempt_schedule() and ret_from_kernel in entry.S before invoking schedule().
But that is not pretty, and I do not think it should go in mainline. Linus has said as much, too.
Robert Love
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