* Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > FWIW, I have taken to CONFIG_PREEMPT=y in my hacking kernels because > > it exposed on my clunky test machines bugs that were otherwise > > reproduced only on big honking machines with lots of parallelism. > > [...] > > It helps with that, but I just don't trust it to work at all times. > It's a really kludgy code from MontaVista, developed with embedded > devices in mind. It's a certified miracle that it boots on SMP at all. actually, the current code works pretty well - and has been brought to the extreme via PREEMPT_RT. It boots fine on SMP and elsewhere, and it finds us tons of bugs in every kernel release. Ingo _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
