Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 May 2005 20:32:31 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: avoid infinite loop in x86_64 interrupt return |
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On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 08:21:43PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > To avoid losing schedule events and signals. Between checking for them > and returning to user space interrupts need to be off. When they are > reenabled everything needs to be rechecked.
All right good point, the latency issues, they'd wait the timeslice to expire instead of being processed immediatly. That couldn't be noticed without some measurement but it's sure worth fixing agreed, thanks! - 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/
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