Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P0

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 23:46, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 23:36, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > doh - i think i found a brown-paperbag bug.
> > 
> > Heh, this would explain all those latency traces with repeated 
> > calls to voluntary_resched...
> 
> hm, didnt those traces show preempt_schedule()?
> 

Yes, they did.

Anyway, the change to sched.c fixes the mlockall bug, it works perfectly
now.  Thanks!

I will try next with /dev/random disabled.  Don't most/many new machines
have a hardware RNG that would eliminate the need for this code?

Lee

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