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 - 17:50:36 EST


willy@thepuffingroup.com wrote:
> Better would be to turn it into a per-architecture function. On PA-RISC,
> we can set a bit in the CPU to make it trap on transitions to userspace
> and having a set_resched() function which just sets the need_resched
> flag on x86 but sets the L bit on PA-RISC would mean that we could avoid
> checking the flag. Maybe this is a 2.5 thing though.

That is a nice feature. It eliminates some fiddly races.

-- Jamie

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