Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Date | Tue, 1 May 2001 20:55:10 +0200 | From | "J . A . Magallon" <> | Subject | [PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac2 |
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On 05.01 Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote: > > > > > > OK works here ... > > > > Me too. > > > > Perhaps this reschedules ok in UP but kinda fails in SMP... > > Great. And see Andrea's SCHED_YIELD explanation in the "sluggish" > mail thread. Well, I didn't try to understand it in full, and I > think he was expecting another thread to hang, rather than the main > startup itself; but no doubt deeper thought would make sense of it all. >
I saw it. Minimal change to make 2.4.4-ac2 work: ========== patch-fork-yield --- linux/kernel/fork.c.orig Tue May 1 20:03:12 2001 +++ linux/kernel/fork.c Tue May 1 20:52:18 2001 @@ -677,8 +677,11 @@ * few simple things and then exec(). This is only important in the * first timeslice. In the long run, the scheduling behavior is * unchanged. + * Make sure the child gets the SCHED_YIELD flag cleared, even if + * it inherited it, to avoid deadlocks. */ p->counter = (current->counter + 1) >> 1; + p->policy &= ~SCHED_YIELD; current->counter >>= 1; current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD; current->need_resched = 1; Is this enough (Andrea?) or just "works for me" ?.
-- J.A. Magallon # Let the source mailto:jamagallon@able.es # be with you, Luke...
Linux werewolf 2.4.4-ac1 #1 SMP Tue May 1 11:35:17 CEST 2001 i686
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