Re: 2.6 preemptive kernel on mips

[Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:22:44PM -0700, Song Wang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone tried to enable kernel preemption on
> Linux mips 2.6 kernel (mips32) and test it? If
> so, which version does it work?
> 
> I tried on 2.6.3 and it didn't work.
> 

Try the latest kernel.  I checked preemption around 2.6.5 time
and I believe all the obvious problems are fixed then.

There are still some issues with both SMP and PREEMPT, but most
people won't see them in normal cases.

Jun