Fedora Core 2 wishlists

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Tue Dec 9 11:33:18 UTC 2003


On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:27:50AM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

 > > Currently, it's impossible to do that, since pre-emption support can't
 > > be enabled as a module. Enabling preemption on-the-fly is not an easy
 > > task so, for the time being, you'll need to recompile.
 > 
 > And since preempt touches core code it probably can not even be
 > modularised.

The best you could hope for is have it compiled in, but disabled,
and make it enable-able through a sysctl.  Linus objected to this
idea a year or so back, so this is unlikely to happen upstream,
and tbh, unlikely to happen in the Red Hat kernel any time soon.

		Dave





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