Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-26,: Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux

# Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux

Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 1 Jul 2000 01:58:59 +0200

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Andi Kleen wrote:
> current->need_resched is checked on return from the handler, but it is
> only acted on directly when the CPU is running in user space.

99.999% of times... there's a race condition, and the fix is in Ingo's
patch but not the mainline kernel. (Only i386 is fixed).

-- Jamie

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