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SubjectRe: [patch] improve SMP reschedule and idle routines
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On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 23:15 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > Make some changes to the NEED_RESCHED and POLLING_NRFLAG to reduce
> > confusion, and make their semantics rigid. Also have preempt explicitly
> > disabled in idle routines. Improves efficiency of resched_task and some
> > cpu_idle routines.
>
> This patch, with or without sched-resched-optimisation-fix.patch causes my
> x86_64 box to soil its pants.
>

Sorry about that. I probably have broken something since last
testing x86-64. It looks like a simple mismatched preempt_
operation, so I'll try to get that fixed up shortly.

--
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.



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