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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