Re: 2.4.7 softirq incorrectness.

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Fri, 27 Jul 2001 22:59:14 +0400 (MSK DST)


Hello!

> Applied to 2.4.8-pre1. Didn't make any difference.

Yes, that hole is mostly theoretical. At least, on intel. Seems, gcc is still
not enough clever to reorder atomic operations.

> Also it doesn't fix the scenario that I described (reschedule while running). I'm still wondering why don't I hit that trylock/BUG
> in tasklet_action.

How old the problem is? Was it always present?

To be honest, this is too strong bug to believe to this at all. :-)

Alexey
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