From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262593AbVENGiC (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 May 2005 02:38:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262598AbVENGiB (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 May 2005 02:38:01 -0400 Received: from mx1.elte.hu ([157.181.1.137]:19351 "EHLO mx1.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262593AbVENGh5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 May 2005 02:37:57 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 08:37:41 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML Subject: Re: Does smp_reschedule_interrupt really reschedule? Message-ID: <20050514063741.GA12217@elte.hu> References: <1116008299.4728.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050513182631.GA15916@elte.hu> <1116010280.4728.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1116010280.4728.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Steven Rostedt wrote: > In finish_task_switch, where is need_resched set? why should it be set? It's the final portion of a context-switch, not the initiator of a context-switch. need_resched is usually set by the wakeup code, or by the preemption code. Ingo