Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 1 Aug 2002 23:17:32 +0200 | | From | Willy TARREAU <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] solved APM bug with -rc5 |
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On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:54:08PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote: > Richard Gooch writes: > > Hm. I bet you didn't try this with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, right? IIRC, the > > wonderful world of preemption means that you can get rescheduled on > > another CPU without warning, unless you take a lock or explicitely > > disable preemption. > > Apologies. I forgot that CONFIG_PREEMPT is a 2.5.x feature, and > doesn't exist on 2.4 (thankfully).
Never mind, your comment is interesting anyway because it shows that preemption patch for 2.4 needs to adapt to such updates.
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