Re: [patch] preemptive kernel, preemptive-2.3.52-A7


Subject: Re: [patch] preemptive kernel, preemptive-2.3.52-A7
From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 11:35:07 PST


On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>It's trivial to force it to be runnable at pre-emption time instead.
>Simple rule: whenever the process gets scheduled for any reason except an
>explicit call to schedule(), it must obviously have been RUNNING. Problem
>solved.

Agreed that's much better.

Andrea



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