On Mon, 29 May 2006, Soorej P wrote:
From its older days i thought Linux Kernel is preemptive.. But now i heard after the release of 2.6 the Linux kernel became preemptive.. so 2.4 was non preemptive? Will you please tell me more about Linux kernel preemption?
In 2.4 user processes were preemptable, but not the kernel itself, i.e. once kernel code takes control of the CPU it could not be preempted. In 2.6 the kernel too is preemptable.
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