From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from f03n07e.au.ibm.com by ausmtp02.au.ibm.com (IBM AP 1.0) with ESMTP id SAA184538 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 18:23:48 +1000 From: pnilesh@in.ibm.com Received: from d73mta05.au.ibm.com (f06n05s [9.185.166.67]) by f03n07e.au.ibm.com (8.8.8m2/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA36240 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 18:28:21 +1000 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:50:20 +0530 Subject: Re: preemp / nonpreemp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Eric W. Biederman" <"ebiederm+eric"@ccr.net> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Using the architecture it is also possible to prempt kernel threads that don't hold the big kernel lock on non-SMP systems as well. Does it mean that I can go and write schedule () in the kernel and it should not create any problems ?/* not in handler */ non-SMP premption probably won't appear until early 2.5 however as it may have a few complications. Can you tell me any complication ? Nilesh -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/