Re: [PATCH] Assorted counter/sched stuff

MOLNAR Ingo (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:47:52 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Neil Conway wrote:

> This is a collection of two types of fix: (a) drivers doing
> "current->counter =0;schedule()" with TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE set; [...]

is this really a problem? It's a way to 'give up' the timeslice
voluntarily. (so it will be kindof lowprio when it gets RUNNING again)

-- mingo

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