Re: 2.6.9 rc2 freezing

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Wed Sep 15 2004 - 11:21:41 EST


Lee Revell wrote:
Anyway, if you are running anything on your server that breaks under
PREEMPT, it will break anyway as soon as you add another processor.

Incorrect. The spinlock behavior is very different.

That's why we had net stack problems in the past under preempt but not under SMP.

Jeff


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