Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:50:26 -0500 (EST) | From | William Montgomery <> | Subject | Re: lowlatency-2.2.14-B1 + 2.2.14aa7 fixes crash, but... |
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, William Montgomery wrote: > > >Yes. Andrea has suggested that the reschedule should only be allowed once > >during the free_inode loop. > > Don't worry about that. You'll never need to run it twice. My change is > needed for correctness but it won't trigger in real life. > Why won't it trigger?
If a user process gets switched in by schedule() and the process does computation for 50us then does a signal() to a sleeping process then goes to sleep using sigpause(), now the sleeping process is need_resched. Won't this cause the trigger?
Wm
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