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SubjectRe: [patch] setscheduler fix
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On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 11:20, Joe Korty wrote:

> Looks good to me.

Good.

> migration_thread and try_to_wake_up already have a simplier version of
> your test that seems to be correct for that environment, so no change
> is needed there.
>
> wake_up_forked_process in principle might need your patch, but as it
> appears to be called only from boot code it is unimportant that it
> have the lowest possible latency, so no change is needed there either.

Agreed.

This is worse than just a latency issue, by the way. Imagine if a
FIFO/50 thread promotes a FIFO/40 thread to FIFO/60. The thread should
run immediately (because, at priority 60, it is the highest), but it may
not until the FIFO/50 thread completes.

Robert Love

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