Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:50:12 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: scheduler ignores need_resched flag in 2.2.x and 2.3.x? |
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William Montgomery wrote: > This case is a good example of a bug, another is the bug in the > idle code which Jamie Lokier found. That code has a race condition > which can cause the idle task to run for up to 1 jiffy (10ms in i386) > when need_resched is pending. These things are clearly wrong and should > be fixed.
The idle bug is fixed in current kernels, though not the ret_from_sys_call bug.
-- Jamie
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