On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:50:52PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Don't ask me why, but I think you may find it's Peter's patch to
> the women-and-children-first in kernel/fork.c: I'm not yet running
> -ac2, but I am trying that patch, fine on UP but hanging right there
> (well, I get a "go go go" message too) on SMP.
>
> Try reversing the:
>
> - p->counter = current->counter;
> - current->counter = 0;
> + p->counter = (current->counter + 1) >> 1;
> + current->counter >>= 1;
> + current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD;
>
> and see if that works for you too.
OK works here ...
boris
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