Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Aug 1998 04:12:18 -0400 (EDT) | From | Ion Badulescu <> | Subject | Re: problem with 114 sched.* changes (not the gcc one) |
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On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Ion Badulescu wrote:
> > My humble oppinion is that, with the scheduling change in 2.1.114, rpciod > > will start running _before_ rpciod_up calls sleep_on() and therefore the > > wake_up() call at the beginning of rpciod becomes ineffective because > > nothing is sleeping on rpciod_idle yet. This is pure speculation, but it > > kind of makes sense. I'm not sure what the right fix is though... > > This makes 100% sense, and explains why it was so timing-dependent and > dependent on a scheduler change that should have made no difference at > all. > > How does this patch work for you?
Works great, and it makes sense too. :-) Thanks a lot..
Ion
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