Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:28:51 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] migration thread fix |
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:08:55PM +0200, Erich Focht wrote: > The patch below applies to the 2.5.8 kernel. It does two things: > 1: Fixes a BUG in the migration threads: the interrupts MUST be disabled > before the double runqueue lock is aquired, otherwise this thing will > deadlock sometimes. > 2: Streamlines the initialization of migration threads. Instead of > fiddling around with cache_deccay_ticks, waiting for migration_mask bits > and relying on the scheduler to distribute the tasks uniformly among > processors, it starts the migration thread on the boot cpu and uses it to > reliably distribute the other threads to their target cpus. > Please consider applying it!
I have a patch to fix #2 as well. Did you see it? Did you try it?
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