Re: [git pull] scheduler fixes

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Feb 02 2009 - 04:52:41 EST


On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 20:49 +0300, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> And answering an earlier question, this happens only on i386 and only
> with 4K stacks because x86_64 dosn't have a separate softirq stack,
> so the preempt count diring the soft irq is at least IRQ_EXIT_OFFSET.

Which suggests that an initial preempt_count offset of 1 should suffice
to fix this issue and not confuse the softirq tracing, hmm?

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