Re: scheduler ignores need_resched flag in 2.2.x and 2.3.x?

From: Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 17:45:45 EST

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Jun Sun wrote:
> The lost need_resched flag to me falls into 1).

Agreed. The fix to me falls into make "current->processor" a pointer to
per-CPU data, and put all per-CPU data in that structure, using linker
tricks.

Overkill I know but it would solve two things in one :-)

-- Jamie

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