It used to be the case but it appears to have been fixed in the rc11 release. Thus you should be good to go with the rc14 version.

https://groups.google.com/a/zfsonlinux.org/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/zfs-announce/zIcg68ehRTA
-> Support for preemptible kernels*
--> Add kpreempt_[dis|en]able macros in <sys/disp.h> (https://github.com/zfsonlinux/spl/commit/45324c7c419b70397cae31b9f2b90ca0a97c9d77)
--> Revert "Make CONFIG_PREEMPT Fatal" (https://github.com/zfsonlinux/spl/commit/e3a436070283596bae22773fee3b56d846ab6cec)
--> Wrap smp_processor_id in kpreempt_[dis|en]able (https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/15a9e03368d8f186751a432740a5a281f45d712d)
--> Remove autoconf check for CONFIG_PREEMPT (https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/f86373f5b2bac3e7cf17a766af5caa5bb7cf8c7a)

- Chris

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 12:48 PM
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Subject: Re: Initial ZFS On Linux (ZOL) YAML for SL-addons

Chris, All,

On Mar 22, 2013, at 17:08 , Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare) wrote:

> Attached is the YAML for the initial ZFS inclusion into SL addons.

The last time I checked, ZOL required a kernel configured without CONFIG_PREEMPT* to work flawlessly.

Has this changed?

Regards,
	Stephan

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