svn commit: r184171 - head/sys/conf
David E. O'Brien
obrien at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 22 17:50:45 UTC 2008
Author: obrien
Date: Wed Oct 22 17:50:45 2008
New Revision: 184171
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/184171
Log:
Clarify the PREEMPTION description a little.
Modified:
head/sys/conf/NOTES
Modified: head/sys/conf/NOTES
==============================================================================
--- head/sys/conf/NOTES Wed Oct 22 17:36:52 2008 (r184170)
+++ head/sys/conf/NOTES Wed Oct 22 17:50:45 2008 (r184171)
@@ -242,9 +242,9 @@ options SX_NOINLINE
# SMP Debugging Options:
#
-# PREEMPTION allows the threads that are in the kernel to be preempted
-# by higher priority threads. It helps with interactivity and
-# allows interrupt threads to run sooner rather than waiting.
+# PREEMPTION allows the threads that are in the kernel to be preempted by
+# higher priority [interrupt] threads. It helps with interactivity
+# and allows interrupt threads to run sooner rather than waiting.
# WARNING! Only tested on amd64 and i386.
# FULL_PREEMPTION instructs the kernel to preempt non-realtime kernel
# threads. Its sole use is to expose race conditions and other
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