Should we be using CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL in the Fedora kernel?

[Pete Zaitcev]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:56:17 +0100, Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte.hu> wrote:

> > > FWIW, I have taken to CONFIG_PREEMPT=y in my hacking kernels because 
> > > it exposed on my clunky test machines bugs that were otherwise 
> > > reproduced only on big honking machines with lots of parallelism. 
> > > [...]
> > 
> > It helps with that, but I just don't trust it to work at all times. 
> > It's a really kludgy code from MontaVista, developed with embedded 
> > devices in mind. It's a certified miracle that it boots on SMP at all.
> 
> actually, the current code works pretty well - and has been brought to 
> the extreme via PREEMPT_RT. It boots fine on SMP and elsewhere, and it 
> finds us tons of bugs in every kernel release.

If you say so, I take it back.

-- Pete