On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 06:25:20PM +0100, Philipp Rumpf wrote:
> Anyway, could those of you experiencing the slow-downs, reboots etc. with
> UP kernels try the following workaround (it will just avoid calling hard_idle()
> completely) ?
Sorry, forgot the patch.
Philipp Rumpf
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--- linux/arch/i386/kernel/process.c Wed Nov 11 00:20:28 1998
+++ linux-2/arch/i386/kernel/process.c Tue Nov 17 20:37:35 1998
@@ -129,9 +129,10 @@
check_pgt_cache();
start_idle = jiffies;
}
- if (jiffies - start_idle > HARD_IDLE_TIMEOUT)
+ /* if (jiffies - start_idle > HARD_IDLE_TIMEOUT)
hard_idle();
- else {
+ else */
+ {
if (boot_cpu_data.hlt_works_ok && !hlt_counter && !current->need_resched)
__asm__("hlt");
}
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