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SubjectRe: [PATCH *] scheduler bigpatch (test results)
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...

Rik.
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