Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac2

From: J . A . Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 12:27:26 EST

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On 05.01 boris wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:50:52PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
> > Don't ask me why, but I think you may find it's Peter's patch to
> > the women-and-children-first in kernel/fork.c: I'm not yet running
> > -ac2, but I am trying that patch, fine on UP but hanging right there
> > (well, I get a "go go go" message too) on SMP.
> >
> > Try reversing the:
> >
> > - p->counter = current->counter;
> > - current->counter = 0;
> > + p->counter = (current->counter + 1) >> 1;
> > + current->counter >>= 1;
> > + current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD;
> >
> > and see if that works for you too.
>
> OK works here ...
>

Me too.

Perhaps this reschedules ok in UP but kinda fails in SMP...

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