From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932098AbWFLTPH (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:15:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932102AbWFLTPG (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:15:06 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:62125 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932097AbWFLTPE (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:15:04 -0400 Subject: Re: broken local_t on i386 From: Alan Cox To: Lee Revell Cc: Andi Kleen , Christoph Lameter , Ingo Molnar , Michal Piotrowski , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1150136082.3062.26.camel@mindpipe> References: <20060609214024.2f7dd72c.akpm@osdl.org> <200606121848.05438.ak@suse.de> <200606121906.28692.ak@suse.de> <1150136082.3062.26.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:46:16 +0100 Message-Id: <1150137976.25462.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ar Llu, 2006-06-12 am 14:14 -0400, ysgrifennodd Lee Revell: > I don't think that's the case anymore. Ubuntu is the #1 distro and the > latest release ships with preemption enabled. I'd love to know how anyone measured that (or indeed any other similar xyz distro or xyz freely distributable relicable product) Perhaps the new Ubuntu super-army can fix or extend binutils to handle the needed relocations if they want extra performance on pre-emption kernels ? Alan