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    SubjectRe: scheduler ignores need_resched flag in 2.2.x and 2.3.x?
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    lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk (Jamie Lokier) writes:

    > Jun Sun wrote:
    > > First of all, I think this is must-fix bug. (Any arguments here?)
    >
    > There are a few other scenarious where need_resched is missed, including
    > the last few instructions after ret_from_syscall. And it really does
    > happen there. I think it's a must-fix too, but the fact that neither my
    > nor Ingo's patch made it in suggests Linus thinks otherwise.

    Looks like the easiest way to fix such races would be to move need_resched
    back to a global variable (possible in an array indexed per CPU). Earlier
    Linux kernels (<2.0) had it this way, I'm not sure why it was changed.


    -Andi

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