* Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> wrote:
> yes, we should keep it enabled - it's the default upstream
and we
> havent had PREEMPT_BKL related bugs for a really long time.
>
> in fact i had more !PREEMPT_BKL bugs than PREEMPT_BKL bugs. (BKL
> spinlock recursion for example)
well, PREEMPT_BKL is not the default - my points remain nevertheless.
let me double-correct myself: PREEMPT_BKL is indeed default enabled on
SMP:
config PREEMPT_BKL
bool "Preempt The Big Kernel Lock"
depends on SMP || PREEMPT
default y
help
so basically everyone who tests SMP kernels has it.
Ingo