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    SubjectRe: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P0

    * Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:

    > On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 23:36, Ingo Molnar wrote:
    > > doh - i think i found a brown-paperbag bug.
    >
    > Heh, this would explain all those latency traces with repeated
    > calls to voluntary_resched...

    hm, didnt those traces show preempt_schedule()?

    this bug also fooled the latency tracer because the preempt count went
    down to zero (hence the latency got reset), but in reality we skipped
    the reschedule.

    Ingo
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