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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-09 12:54:17 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-09 12:54:17 -0700 |
| commit | 9a9136e270af14da506f66bcafcc506b86a86498 (patch) | |
| tree | b4d0a6877d92635134b7a944d0032fbc43227fd2 /kernel/Kconfig.preempt | |
| parent | 3960208f9ca0cf6bdb31c21c59ac0526303f8b34 (diff) | |
| parent | 7bb2acb76e8168ca5d0bde5a5a56585a11b3525a (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.
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Fix trivial comment conflict in kernel/relay.c.
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/Kconfig.preempt')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/Kconfig.preempt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt index 0b46a5dff4c..c64ce9c1420 100644 --- a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt +++ b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY "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. + at the cost of slightly lower throughput. This allows reaction to interactive events by allowing a low priority process to voluntarily preempt itself even if it @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ config PREEMPT 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 + system is under load, at the cost of slightly lower throughput and a slight runtime overhead to kernel code. Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop or |