Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Mar 2000 23:50:36 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: scheduler ignores need_resched flag in 2.2.x and 2.3.x? |
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willy@thepuffingroup.com wrote: > Better would be to turn it into a per-architecture function. On PA-RISC, > we can set a bit in the CPU to make it trap on transitions to userspace > and having a set_resched() function which just sets the need_resched > flag on x86 but sets the L bit on PA-RISC would mean that we could avoid > checking the flag. Maybe this is a 2.5 thing though.
That is a nice feature. It eliminates some fiddly races.
-- Jamie
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