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On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Erich Focht wrote: > The patch below applies to the 2.5.8 kernel. It does two things: > > 1: Fixes a BUG in the migration threads: the interrupts MUST be disabled > before the double runqueue lock is aquired, otherwise this thing will > deadlock sometimes.> > 2: Streamlines the initialization of migration threads. Instead of > fiddling around with cache_deccay_ticks, waiting for migration_mask bits > and relying on the scheduler to distribute the tasks uniformly among > processors, it starts the migration thread on the boot cpu and uses it > to reliably distribute the other threads to their target cpus. > > Please consider applying it! looks perfectly good to me. Even with wli's patch i saw some migration thread initialization weirdnesses. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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