Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc2-mm3-S5

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Sep 24 2004 - 06:48:38 EST



* K.R. Foley <kr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Maybe this wasn't the right way to fix the problem? I just looked at
> the S4 patch and it had the same change in it, but did not exhibit the
> same problem. Not knowing exactly what I was looking for, I just
> started looking for obvious changes that might affect dropping tcp
> connections and this one seemed reasonable. I made the change and the
> problem went away. Maybe this needs looking at a little closer.

S4 had other problems with softirq processing so i'd not be surprised if
that magically fixed the problem introduced by this change.

Ingo
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