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SubjectRe: Linux-1.3.80


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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