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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