Re: [PATCH]Preemption patch for 2.6

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On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:28:50AM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:

> mlachwani> The attached patch incorporates preemption enable/disable
> mlachwani> in some parts of the kernel. I have tested this on the
> mlachwani> Broadcom Sibyte. Please review ...
> 
> 1. You add preempt_disable/preempt_enable to c-sb1.c and tlb-sb1.c.
>    Those are SB1 specific issue?  If not, please fix other c-*.c and
>    tlb-*.c same way.

This an SMP issue and only affects the SB1 code.

The other CPU for which CVS supports SMP is the R10000 family; thanks to
having nice caches it's immune mostly immune to this kind of issue.

  Ralf


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