Answer:
the preemption is -> The ability of the operating
system to preempt or stop a currently
scheduled task in favour of a higher priority
task. The scheduling may be one of, but not
limited to, process or 1/0 scheduling etc.
Under Linux, user-space programs have always
been preemptible: the kernel interrupts user
space programs to switch to other threads,
using the regular clock tick. So, the kernel
doesn't wait for user-space programs to
explicitly release the processor (which is the
case in cooperative multitasking). This means
that an infinite loop in an user-space program
cannot block the system.
However, until 2.6 kernels, the kernel itself was
not preemtible: as soon as one thread has
entered the kernel, it could not be preempted to
execute an other thread. However, this absence
of preemption in the kernel caused several
oroblems with regard to latency and scalability.
So, kernel preemption has been introduced in
2.6 kernels, and one can enable or disable it
using the cONFIG_PREEMPT option. If
CONFIG PREEMPT is enabled, then kernel code
can be preempted everywhere, except when the
code has disabled local interrupts. An infinite
loop in the code can no longer block the entire
system. If CONFIG PREEMPT is disabled, then
the 2.4 behaviour is restored.
So it suitable for real time application. Only
difference is we don't see many coders using it
