Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Oct 1998 20:44:21 +0200 (CEST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH *] scheduler bigpatch (test results) |
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On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Kurt Garloff wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 09:42:57PM +0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > I have received a few reports from people who applied the > > scheduler bigpatch to their kernel and are running with it. > > Did anybody test it with rc5des? I did and I'm absolutely unhappy with it.
I found the bug and fixed it earlier today. Unfortunately that patch _does_ introduce a new bug, but that only shows up when you try to promote a SCHED_IDLE process to SCHED_OTHER.
The error was in reschedule_idle() not checking for current->policy == SCHED_IDLE...
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