Re: [Alsa-user] Total system lock on 'cat /dev/sequencer' - just checking

[Takashi I. <ti...@su...>]

Hi,

At Sat, 15 Jun 2002 01:03:30 -0500 (CDT),
Brent Cook wrote:
> 
> I figured it out; there's a race condition using the sequencer with the
> preemptible kernel feature turned on with 2.5.20 and multiple processors.
> Turning off kernel preemption allows the sequencer to operate fine on a
> SMP machine. FYI.

did you use the combination of CONFIG_PREEMPT and CONFIG_SMP?
or was it only preemption?


Takashi