Re: [patch] preemptive kernel

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Sat Aug 12 2000 - 14:19:00 EST

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Hi!

> The following patch make the system preemptable; a task
> (kernel or user) can be scheduled while running in the
> kernel space if this is safe to do so.
> The results are quite interesting.
> The patch is against 2.2.16 and is for UP only on intel platforms.

This looks nicely. Perhaps it should be config option, and it better
should be against 2.4.0, but it is nice. [This seems to follow Linus'
solution pretty closely, does it?]
Pavel

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