"more than likely": that's perhaps true for your average NIC/soundcard/
whatever driver, but things that poke the processor itself (like my
performance-monitoring counters driver) really do depend on not being
preempted. In my view, CONFIG_SMP is a minor triviality compared to
CONFIG_PREEMPT ...
/Mikael
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