kernel preemption

Deepak Saxena dsaxena at laptop.org
Thu Aug 7 10:55:45 EDT 2008


On Aug 07 2008, at 15:07, Victor Lazzarini was caught saying:
> Hi all,
> 
> a question for the OS people: what is the level of preemption
> in the olpc supplied kernel?

We're running the "Low-Latencty Preemption" mode which makes all
of the kernel pre-emptable except for critical sections. This
is stock kernel.org code and not the -rt patch.

~Deepak

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Deepak Saxena - Kernel Developer - dsaxena at laptop.org



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