Re: broken local_t on i386

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 19:06 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Also on non preemptive kernels - which are the majority - it's a
> single instruction on x86. I guess preempt users can live with a bit
> more overhead ...  

I don't think that's the case anymore.  Ubuntu is the #1 distro and the
latest release ships with preemption enabled.

Lee

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