On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 03:26 +0000, Martin Habets wrote: > You should know very well that bad patches normally don't make it into > the kernel. I sure hope this one never will (in it's current form). > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-June/msg00072.html According to the kernel developers this patch should have no effect if CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL=y in the kernel config, can you make sure that is the case? What kernel version required that patch to not get xruns? Lee