Messages in this thread | | | From | mgross <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH]: scheduler complex macros fixes | Date | Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:54:18 -0400 |
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On Friday 19 July 2002 01:28 pm, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > well, SCHED_BATCH is in fact ready, so we might as well put it in. All > > the suggestions mentioned on lkml (or in private) are now included, there > > are no pending (known) problems, no objections, and a number of people > > are using it with success. > > Well, I do actually have objections, mainly because I think it modifies > code that I'd rather have cleaned up in other ways _first_ (ie the return > path to user mode, which has pending irq_count/bh_count/preempt issues > that I consider to be about a million times more important than batch > scheduling). >
Thats too bad. I've been looking at Ingo's SCHED_BATCH design to help suspend processes with out lock problems while doing multithreaded core dumps.
Is there any ETA on the return path to user mode clean up?
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