Re: New schedule() and semaphore implementation ...

Davide Libenzi (dlibenzi@maticad.it)
Sat, 12 Jun 1999 22:25:06 +0200 (CEST)


Andrea wrote:

>It does _not_ the same thing. You don't know at wakeup time which will be
>the CPU that will get the task. You don't know which will be its prev->mm.

OK, I've missed SMP issues.
But sure that if my goodness loop in __sem_wake_up() don't release the best
task neither LIFO & FIFO will do.
Anyway is better a FIFO politics then give all tasks the free way.

Cheers,
Davide

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