> The first pending patch is a fix for a bug I discovered last week. The
> patch avoid the idle task to continue to run if an useful process is being
> wakenup. It make a _big_ difference. Compiling the kernel a `xload' show
> that the CPU is used at 100% all the time (5/10% kernel and the other is
> gcc). Without this patch xload is far from doing a straight line in the
> high part of the graph.
I'd often noticed this, but assumed that it was just an accounting
deficiency.
> - if (p->policy != SCHED_OTHER || p->counter > current->counter + 3)
> + if (/* idle_task == current || */ p->counter >= current->counter ||
> + p->policy != SCHED_OTHER)
Do you mean the have that comparison commented out?
Matthew.
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