On 17-Jul-2001 Hubertus Franke wrote: > > > This only applies only to the idle thread and it says that the idle > thread actively monitors its need_resched flag and hence will > instantly call schedule() at that point. Hence there won't be any > delay either for IPI or for waiting to return from the kernel. > > You might be right that the problem situation still arises, because > the idle_thread needs to content again for the lock. > Let me ask the otherway around, why do we HAVE to put it in ? > And if I missed something here, we put it outside the <if> clause. Yep, we were talking about two different if-locations :) Anyway, it's right, using the poll idle we've to change the position of the assignment. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
