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Re: Preemptible Kernel

To: Federico Sevilla III <jijo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Preemptible Kernel
From: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:53:57 +1000
Cc: Linux XFS Mailing List <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:19:36 +0800." <Pine.LNX.4.40.0110181715130.5965-100000@gusi.leathercollection.ph>
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:19:36 +0800 (PHT), 
Federico Sevilla III <jijo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I remember a TAKE before that announced that the XFS kernel was officially
>preemptible ready. What did this mean?

A #include line was added to two XFS files to compile with the
preemtible patch.

>I've been reading about Robert Love's preemptible patches, and am very
>interested. Does the XFS kernel's being preemptible ready mean that I can
>cleanly apply Robert Love's patch for the correct kernel version on the
>XFS kernel, and configure the kernel to use this feature?

Yes.

>I wonder: would it be too much to ask that Robert Love's preemptible
>patches be incorporated into the XFS kernel already?

No chance!  XFS has to run on multiple architectures, most of which
have not been tested against the preemptible patches.


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