On 4 Apr 2002, Robert Love wrote:
>
> Curiously, what is wrong with the way we did it in the original patch?
> I.e. set a bit in preempt_count and use that to skip to pick_next_task
> in schedule. This allows us to preempt any task of any state ...
Because that requires that every user of "set_task_state()" needs to know
about preemption.
Btw, I think entry.S should just call preempt_schedule() instead, instead
of knowing about these details.
Linus
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