Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P1

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 20:14, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 06:05:15 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > * Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyway, the change to sched.c fixes the mlockall bug, it works
> > > perfectly now.  Thanks!
> > 
> > great! This fix also means that we've got one more lock-break in the
> > ext3 journalling code and one more lock-break in dcache.c. I've
> > released-P1 with the fix included:
> > 
> >  http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P1
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i don't know if this was mentioned before, but i sometimes see traces
> like this where half the entries are "preempt_schedule
> (copy_page_range)". I just wanted to ask if this is normal and expected
> behaviour.
> 

Yes, Ingo identified an issue with copy_page_range, I don't think it's
fixed yet.  See the voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P0 thread.

Lee

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