Re: must-fix list for 2.6.0

From: Mike Galbraith (efault@gmx.de)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 01:26:15 EST


At 05:21 AM 5/1/2003 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>At 12:11 PM 4/30/2003 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>Maciej Soltysiak <solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Also there is one issue, i am not sure if this may be a kernel issue,
>> > but with setiathome running in a X desktop environment all apps work fine,
>> > but when i run openoffice, openoffice responds with 5 second delay.
>>
>>That'll be the changed sched_yield() semantics.
>>
>>The below patch should fix that up, but we need to decide whether the (rather
>>unclear) advantages of the sched_yield() change outweigh the breakage which
>>it caused linuxthreads applications.

<snip>

Anyway, attached is a patchlet that works for me if anyone wants to try
it. I removed printk's, and whatnot but it'll have some offsets because of
other butchery in my X-para-mental tree ;-)

         -Mike


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