On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, William Montgomery wrote:
>
> >Yes. Andrea has suggested that the reschedule should only be allowed once
> >during the free_inode loop.
>
> Don't worry about that. You'll never need to run it twice. My change is
> needed for correctness but it won't trigger in real life.
>
Why won't it trigger?
If a user process gets switched in by schedule() and the process
does computation for 50us then does a signal() to a sleeping process
then goes to sleep using sigpause(), now the sleeping process is
need_resched. Won't this cause the trigger?
Wm
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