Re: lowlatency-2.2.13-A1 questions

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Thu, 2 Dec 1999 21:54:48 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, William Montgomery wrote:

> Here is a snippet from my trace log (slightly reformatted):

> 61913.51 0.66 do_IRQ pid(132->309)
> 61914.17 2.65 __switch_to pid(309)

> int this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
> struct task_struct *tsk;
>
> tsk = current;
> if (preemption_goodness(tsk, p, this_cpu) > 0)
> tsk->need_resched = 1;
> #endif
> }
> ----------------
>
> Is my theory valid?

yep - 2.3 already has the fix:

int this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
struct task_struct *tsk;

tsk = cpu_curr(this_cpu);
if (preemption_goodness(tsk, p, this_cpu) > 0)
tsk->need_resched = 1;

-- mingo

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