On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 17:36, Jose Luis Alarcon wrote: > I have a dude..... A dude? > Are all processors ables to take advantage of a preemptible > kernel? or there are any (old) processor which give the same > results with the new feature activated and deactivated?. > > Is the preemptible feature a question of kernel only? or > play too others parameters?. All processes on the system may take advantage of kernel preemption. I think your question is basically "does the preemptible kernel require any API changes" and the answer is no. When the preempt-kernel patch is applied, all processes automatically benefit. Robert Love -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
