Re: Scheduler & semaphore patch for 2.2.14 ...

Davide Libenzi (dlibenzi@maticad.it)
Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:05:50 +0100

On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> there's no chance for this to go into 2.2.X (not a bugfix). 2.3.X is
> better target.

There is another issues coz the patch has a bug that came out in SMP.
Line 924 in sched.c must be changed from :

if ((c <= 0) && (nr_running > 0))

to :

#ifdef __SMP__
if ((c <= 0) && (nr_running >= smp_num_cpus)) /* To fix better */
#else
if ((c <= 0) && (nr_running > 0))
#endif /* __SMP__ */

Davide.

-- 
All this stuff is IMVHO






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