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

From: Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 08:50:12 EST


William Montgomery wrote:
> This case is a good example of a bug, another is the bug in the
> idle code which Jamie Lokier found. That code has a race condition
> which can cause the idle task to run for up to 1 jiffy (10ms in i386)
> when need_resched is pending. These things are clearly wrong and should
> be fixed.

The idle bug is fixed in current kernels, though not the
ret_from_sys_call bug.

-- Jamie

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