Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:59:23 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.8.1-mm2 |
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* Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to modify release_task to not remove self-reaping tasks > from the list (and possibly have it removed during > finish_task_switch)? > > This should solve the hotplug race as well as keep the current > optimization?
see the patch i just sent - it disables hotplug in that critical self-reap section.
(another solution would be for the hotplug code to also look into the local runqueue for tasks to migrate, not only the tasklist.)
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