Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Dec 2004 18:30:47 -0800 | From | Nish Aravamudan <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove RCU abuse in cpu_idle() |
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On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:10:31 -0700 (MST), Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 18:44 -0700, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > > > > This thread can possibly be stalled forever if there is a CPU hog > > > > running, right? > > > > > > Yep. > > > > > > > In which case, you will want to use ssleep rather than a busy loop. > > > > > > Well ssleep essentially does the same thing as the schedule_timeout. > > > > > > > Yes - so long as you set ->state when using schedule_timeout ;) > > Nish could you please submit something to switch it to ssleep?
Yup, I'll send it out tomorrow.
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