Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Dec 2000 14:05:30 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-test13-pre1 lockup: run_task_queue or tty_io are wrong |
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On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:02:31PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > > How about using a sentinel list entry representing the current position > > in run_task_queue's loop? > > Nope. > > There may be multiple concurrent run_task_queue's executing, so for now > I've applied Andrew Morton's patch that most closely gets the old > behaviour of having a private list. > > HOWEVER, this does need to be re-visited. The task-queue handling is > potantially something that should be completely re-vamped in the future. > > Linus
Linus,
Try thinking about the work to do model (since task queues are so similiar) Having to "kick" these things should be automatic in the kernel. I could do a lot of cool stuff with this in there, manos aside.....
:-)
Jeff
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