Re: [uPATCH] SMP scheduling fix (?)

MOLNAR Ingo (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 20:50:46 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> The easiest way is just to do normal time-sharing scheduling on all
> processes in D state. Are there any critical locks which we wait for in
> interruptible-sleep state?

you forget about TASK_RUNNING processes which get rescheduled in filemap.c
and similar places. (we _could_ say that it's not allowed to reschedule in
TASK_RUNNING state, but we dont say this currently and it's quite
dangerous to assume so)

-- mingo

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