Re: Scheduler problems

Rik van Riel (riel@humbolt.geo.uu.nl)
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:38:01 +0100 (CET)

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>
> > Ingo, any thoughts? Seems that if for any reason all wakeup interrupts
> > arrive at the same CPU which is running the SCHED_FIFO task, then we
> > will _never_ perform any successful wakeups without first exhausting the
> > other CPU's current timeslice.
>
> yes i have a patch for this but it's not straightforward enough
> for 2.2. (ie. a 50k patch) It has to do things like a full
> goodness() run for every CPU in wakeup(), which is less than
> ideal.

I am willing to improve/maintain that patch as an add-on
feature for 2.2 -- once 2.2 stabilizes, of course...

cheers,

Rik -- If a Microsoft product fails, who do you sue?
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