Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:44:57 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [announce] [patch] ultra-scalable O(1) SMP and UP scheduler |
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, David Lang wrote:
> Ingo, > back in the 2.4.4-2.4.5 days when we experimented with the > child-runs-first scheduling patch we ran into quite a few programs that > died or locked up due to this. (I had a couple myself and heard of others)
hm, Andrea said that the only serious issue was in the sysvinit code, which should be fixed in any recent distro. Andrea?
> try switching this back to the current behaviour and see if the > lockups still happen.
there must be some other bug as well, the child-runs-first scheduling can cause lockups, but it shouldnt cause oopes.
Ingo
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