On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Hans-Joachim Baader wrote:
> >
> >
> > Since the message only appears in the Reiserfs, we know the culprit ;-)
> >
> It's probably a buglet in the main scheduler, and Reiserfs uncovered the
> problem 8-)
> IIRC one of the Reiserfs developers wrote that the newest patch should
> fix that problem.
>
Exactly. I work around this in our 2.3 code, but haven't had the chance
to port the fix back yet to the 2.2 code. Andi Kleen sent along this
patch for sched.c, as far as I know, it has fixed the issue for everyone
that has tried it.
--- linux/kernel/sched.c-o Wed Feb 9 14:27:20 2000
+++ linux/kernel/sched.c Wed Mar 29 12:53:41 2000
@@ -803,6 +803,7 @@
goto handle_bh_back;
handle_tq_scheduler:
+ __sti();
run_task_queue(&tq_scheduler);
goto tq_scheduler_back;
-
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