Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:06:05 +0200 (EET) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Linux-1.3.80 |
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On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Mike Kilburn wrote: > > pattern with that kind of minimal report from people. But try 1.3.80 > > _first_, just on the off chance that it's fixed by mistake. ] > > When I first saw the patch I thought the sti that was added to the > to bottom_half routine in sched.c might have been for the latency problem. > Why is that sti there now?
It does indeed fix a latency problem, but only on alpha machines (which called that routine with interrupts disabled for simpler assembly code). I changed the x86 asm sources to do it that way too (see the setup.S part of the 80-patch)
Linus
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