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SubjectRe: [PATCH] small fixes in brlock.h
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Robert Love wrote:

> Yep. Any interrupt, actually.
>
> Or the reschedule IPI on SMP systems.
>
> Kernel preemption off an interrupt is actually the most common (and the
> ideal) place to preempt since an interrupt is usually what wakes up a
> task off I/O and sets need_resched. So kernel preemption lets us
> reschedule the higher priority task the moment the interrupt wakes it
> up. Of course, if a lock is held, we have to wait till we drop it.

Thanks for clearing that up, i'll probably need to relook at some of my
code to be sure.

Zwane
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