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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-09 15:54:17 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-09 15:54:17 -0400
commit9a9136e270af14da506f66bcafcc506b86a86498 (patch)
treeb4d0a6877d92635134b7a944d0032fbc43227fd2 /kernel/Kconfig.preempt
parent3960208f9ca0cf6bdb31c21c59ac0526303f8b34 (diff)
parent7bb2acb76e8168ca5d0bde5a5a56585a11b3525a (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits) sound: convert "sound" subdirectory to UTF-8 MAINTAINERS: Add cxacru website/mailing list include files: convert "include" subdirectory to UTF-8 general: convert "kernel" subdirectory to UTF-8 documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8 Convert the toplevel files CREDITS and MAINTAINERS to UTF-8. remove broken URLs from net drivers' output Magic number prefix consistency change to Documentation/magic-number.txt trivial: s/i_sem /i_mutex/ fix file specification in comments drivers/base/platform.c: fix small typo in doc misc doc and kconfig typos Remove obsolete fat_cvf help text Fix occurrences of "the the " Fix minor typoes in kernel/module.c Kconfig: Remove reference to external mqueue library Kconfig: A couple of grammatical fixes in arch/i386/Kconfig Correct comments in genrtc.c to refer to correct /proc file. Fix more "deprecated" spellos. Fix "deprecated" typoes. ... Fix trivial comment conflict in kernel/relay.c.
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diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
index 0b46a5dff4c0..c64ce9c14207 100644
--- a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
+++ b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
23 "explicit preemption points" to the kernel code. These new 23 "explicit preemption points" to the kernel code. These new
24 preemption points have been selected to reduce the maximum 24 preemption points have been selected to reduce the maximum
25 latency of rescheduling, providing faster application reactions, 25 latency of rescheduling, providing faster application reactions,
26 at the cost of slighly lower throughput. 26 at the cost of slightly lower throughput.
27 27
28 This allows reaction to interactive events by allowing a 28 This allows reaction to interactive events by allowing a
29 low priority process to voluntarily preempt itself even if it 29 low priority process to voluntarily preempt itself even if it
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ config PREEMPT
43 even if it is in kernel mode executing a system call and would 43 even if it is in kernel mode executing a system call and would
44 otherwise not be about to reach a natural preemption point. 44 otherwise not be about to reach a natural preemption point.
45 This allows applications to run more 'smoothly' even when the 45 This allows applications to run more 'smoothly' even when the
46 system is under load, at the cost of slighly lower throughput 46 system is under load, at the cost of slightly lower throughput
47 and a slight runtime overhead to kernel code. 47 and a slight runtime overhead to kernel code.
48 48
49 Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop or 49 Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop or