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SubjectRe: lowlatency-2.2.14-B1 + 2.2.14aa7 fixes crash, but...
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, William Montgomery wrote:

>Process B is SCHED_FIFO waiting via sigpause().
>Process A is SCHED_FIFO running and does signal() to Process B.
>Process A waits in sigpause().
>Process A run time in this case is very short, probably shorter that
>free_inode loop.

What has the above scenario to to do with free_inodes in first place?

>> >[..] then does a signal() to a sleeping process [..] now the sleeping
>> > process is need_resched [..]
>>
>> Sending a signal to "tsk" doesn't set "tsk->need_resched".
>>
>if a SCHED_OTHER process sends a signal to a waiting SCHED_FIFO process
>shouldn't the SCHED_FIFO wakeup and run? What mechanism accomplishes
>this?

tsk->state + runqueue.

Andrea


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