Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] One-liner typo 2.5.3-pre3 in ppc/kernel/idle.c | Date | Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:00:25 +1100 |
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In message <20020123053118.GB14366@krispykreme> you write: > We atomically grab the current value of need_resched and replace it with > -1. The -1 tells the scheduler that we are busy looping and it doesnt need > to send an IPI to force a reschedule.
Yes, but the replacment loop was completely wrong. Sure, with my patch this optimization isn't there, but at least it will work as designed...
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