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SubjectRe: ArcNet and 2.6.8.1
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On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 18:52, Esben Nielsen wrote:
> Oh well, I'll try to see if I can get time to make it stable with
> preemption on. Is preemption safe enough to ensure SMP safe or would I
> have to test on at least a hyperthreading machine as well?
>

In theory preempt safe should be SMP safe, but in practice it doesn't
always work this way. You need to test on an actual SMP system.

I am not sure that HT == SMP for your purposes either. ISTR some cases
with the VP patches where it broke on HT but not "real" SMP.

Lee

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