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r: 3309
b: refs/heads/master
c: f8cbd99
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  3307: d279e9d
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[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: f704f56af95bec3c1ca719d64d0becef74d40899
+refs/heads/master: f8cbd99bd3a023db8d6356d19a5f6f539d367327

trunk/include/linux/kernel.h

@@ -58,15 +58,23 @@ struct completion;
  * be biten later when the calling function happens to sleep when it is not
  * supposed to.
  */
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
+extern int cond_resched(void);
+# define might_resched() cond_resched()
+#else
+# define might_resched() do { } while (0)
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
-#define might_sleep() __might_sleep(__FILE__, __LINE__)
-#define might_sleep_if(cond) do { if (unlikely(cond)) might_sleep(); } while (0)
-void __might_sleep(char *file, int line);
+  void __might_sleep(char *file, int line);
+# define might_sleep() \
+	do { __might_sleep(__FILE__, __LINE__); might_resched(); } while (0)
 #else
-#define might_sleep() do {} while(0)
-#define might_sleep_if(cond) do {} while (0)
+# define might_sleep() do { might_resched(); } while (0)
 #endif
 
+#define might_sleep_if(cond) do { if (unlikely(cond)) might_sleep(); } while (0)
+
 #define abs(x) ({				\
 		int __x = (x);			\
 		(__x < 0) ? -__x : __x;		\

trunk/kernel/Kconfig.preempt

@@ -1,15 +1,56 @@
 
-config PREEMPT
-	bool "Preemptible Kernel"
+choice
+	prompt "Preemption Model"
+	default PREEMPT_NONE
+
+config PREEMPT_NONE
+	bool "No Forced Preemption (Server)"
+	help
+	  This is the traditional Linux preemption model, geared towards
+	  throughput. It will still provide good latencies most of the
+	  time, but there are no guarantees and occasional longer delays
+	  are possible.
+
+	  Select this option if you are building a kernel for a server or
+	  scientific/computation system, or if you want to maximize the
+	  raw processing power of the kernel, irrespective of scheduling
+	  latencies.
+
+config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
+	bool "Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop)"
 	help
-	  This option reduces the latency of the kernel when reacting to
-	  real-time or interactive events by allowing a low priority process to
-	  be preempted even if it is in kernel mode executing a system call.
-	  This allows applications to run more reliably even when the system is
+	  This option reduces the latency of the kernel by adding more
+	  "explicit preemption points" to the kernel code. These new
+	  preemption points have been selected to reduce the maximum
+	  latency of rescheduling, providing faster application reactions,
+	  at the cost of slighly lower throughput.
+
+	  This allows reaction to interactive events by allowing a
+	  low priority process to voluntarily preempt itself even if it
+	  is in kernel mode executing a system call. This allows
+	  applications to run more 'smoothly' even when the system is
 	  under load.
 
-	  Say Y here if you are building a kernel for a desktop, embedded
-	  or real-time system.  Say N if you are unsure.
+	  Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop system.
+
+config PREEMPT
+	bool "Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)"
+	help
+	  This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making
+	  all kernel code (that is not executing in a critical section)
+	  preemptible.  This allows reaction to interactive events by
+	  permitting a low priority process to be preempted involuntarily
+	  even if it is in kernel mode executing a system call and would
+	  otherwise not be about to reach a natural preemption point.
+	  This allows applications to run more 'smoothly' even when the
+	  system is under load, at the cost of slighly lower throughput
+	  and a slight runtime overhead to kernel code.
+
+	  Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop or
+	  embedded system with latency requirements in the milliseconds
+	  range.
+
+endchoice
 
 config PREEMPT_BKL
 	bool "Preempt The Big Kernel Lock"