Here is some news about Robert Love's preemptible kernel patch from KernelTrap.org. Jeremy writes . . .

“Ever since interviewing Robert Love last October, I've added his preemptible kernel patch to all my running kernels, with great results. Ingo Molnar's recent O(1) scheduler has also looked attractive, but I've been waiting until it was compatible with Robert's patch before trying it. The wait is over.”

“This afternoon Robert announced the release of a O(1) scheduler compatible preemptible kernel patch for the stable 2.4 kernel tree and the 2.5 development kernel. He says, 'Getting the two to play together was not hard, albeit a bit of a pain. The actually scheduling support is less, due to the simplified schedule and schedule_tail, although there is added code for making the per-CPU runqueues preempt-safe.' “

“What follows is Robert's announcement email, as well as Ingo's announcement of his -H6 version of the O(1) scheduler . . .”

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