Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:53:22 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.19-preX: What we really need: -AA patches finally in the tree |
| |
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:21:12AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > You should talk to Andrew Morton, as he plans to do this also.
Last time I talked to him he was primarily interested in the VM.
> I thought the internals of the scheduler weren't exposed to the rest of the > kernel...
They shouldn't, But many old drivers do (and _had to_):
current->policy = SCHED_YIELD; schedule();
which isn't possible with the new scheduler.
Christoph
-- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |