Re: 2.5.8: preemption + SMP broken ?

Dipankar Sarma (dipankar@in.ibm.com)
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 00:34:03 +0530


On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 02:25:57PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 13:52, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> > Has anyone tried out preemption with SMP ?
>
> Sure, all my testing is on SMP. The problem manifested itself in
> 2.5.8-pre when some changes where made to the migration code. The race
> is in the migration code - I am not sure it is preempts fault, per se,
> but the attached patch should fix it. It is pending with Linus for the
> next release.

It worked! Thanks a lot, Robert.

Thanks

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Dipankar Sarma  <dipankar@in.ibm.com> http://lse.sourceforge.net
Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India.
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