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Re: Preemptible question.

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

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