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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:42:02 +0200
From: Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: options IPI_PREEMPTION and PREEMPTION in 7.0 AMD64
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Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I run FreeBSD 7.0 AMD64 and powered by C2D with 2 GB of ram.
> 
> options  PREEMPTION in the kernel, but in NOTES it says I can use
> IPI_PREEMPTION to make the kernel make the other running threads to
> run in the other core.
> 
> So the question is, did you guys try it with ULE 2? shall I keep both
> PREEMPTION and  IPI_PREEMPTION in the kernel file?

IPI_PREEMPTION and PREEMPTION are only marginally linked, and you need 
to use both with ULE.

Thanks,
Attilio