Re: preempt_disable() question

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Thu Mar 20 2008 - 12:23:41 EST



On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 07:44 +0530, Rick Brown wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've asked this on kernel newbies before, but not enough responses.
>
> Does preempt_disable() disable preemption on all the processors, or
> just the local processor?

Just the local processor.

Daniel

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