Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:24:37 +0100 (CET) | From | MOLNAR Ingo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Assorted counter/sched stuff |
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On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Neil Conway wrote:
> When I first saw the problem in tty_ioctl.c, Linus said that because the > driver was setting TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE it will not get the CPU back > anyway (until the wait queue responds in that particular case). In the > cases I have just changed, the driver won't get the CPU back until the > timeout expires in schedule_timeout(). Once the timeout expires, why on > earth would we want the driver to be low-priority? I'm not saying > that's impossible, just that I don't see a reason - do feel encouraged > to put me straight ;-)
ah, ok, i didnt know that this is a _bug_ :) I thought you suspect some changed behavior related to recentish scheduler changes, but it isnt. i think these then are all longstanding bugs, i guess for 2.0 too.
-- mingo
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