Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable
Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Wed, 9 Jan 2002 15:07:40 +0100
On January 9, 2002 02:55 pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:56:50PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > BTW, I find your main argument confusing. First you don't want -preempt with
> > CONFIG_EXERIMENTAL because it might not get wide enough testing, so you want
> > to enable it by default in the mainline kernel, then you argue it's too risky
> > because everybody will use it and it might break some obscure driver. Sorry,
> > you lost me back there.
>
> the point I am making is very simple: _if_ we include it, it should _not_
> be a config option.
That doesn't make any sense to me. Why should _SMP be a config option and not
_PREEMPT?
--
Daniel
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