Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Feb 2000 11:44:25 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] proposed scheduler enhancements and fixes |
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On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 11:30:15AM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> What about using SCHED_IDLE only for processes that are in user > space? e.g. ret_with_reschedule calls a special > "schedule_with_SCHED_IDLE()". As soon as a thread runs within > kernel space, we ignore SCHED_IDLE.
This would only fix kernel-space deadlocks -- think about pthreads and NSPR when you have userspace locking.
-cw
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