On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 18:52, Esben Nielsen wrote: > Oh well, I'll try to see if I can get time to make it stable with > preemption on. Is preemption safe enough to ensure SMP safe or would I > have to test on at least a hyperthreading machine as well? > In theory preempt safe should be SMP safe, but in practice it doesn't always work this way. You need to test on an actual SMP system. I am not sure that HT == SMP for your purposes either. ISTR some cases with the VP patches where it broke on HT but not "real" SMP. Lee - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
