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Subject: Re: Preempt switchable.
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Maciej Soltysiak <solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv>
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On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 14:48, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:

> would it be possible to turn on/off CONFIG_PREEMPT at runtime, eg. via
> sysctl ?

Sure, make a sysctl and check it in preempt_schedule() and
ret_from_kernel in entry.S before invoking schedule().

But that is not pretty, and I do not think it should go in mainline. 
Linus has said as much, too.

	Robert Love