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SubjectRE: Scheduler question

On 25-Aug-2000 DJBARROW@de.ibm.com wrote:

> We have noticed that do_bottom_half leaves interrupts disabled on the local
> cpu when it exits,
> This results in the tq_scheduler task queue sometimes running with
> interrupts disabled.
> Which has been causing some sad happenings in our code,we were not
> expecting this & it
> has caused some grief in drivers.

2.4 does

handle_tq_scheduler:
/*
* do not run the task queue with disabled interrupts,
* cli() wouldn't work on SMP
*/
sti();
run_task_queue(&tq_scheduler);

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Dimitris Michailidis dimitris@engr.sgi.com
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