From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mgross Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:54:18 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: [PATCH]: scheduler complex macros fixes Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Friday 19 July 2002 01:28 pm, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >=A0well, SCHED_BATCH is in fact ready, so we might as well put it in. All > > the suggestions mentioned on lkml (or in private) are now included, the= re > > are no pending (known) problems, no objections, and a number of people > > are using it with success. > > Well, I do actually have objections, mainly because I think it modifies > code that I'd rather have cleaned up in other ways _first_ (ie the return > path to user mode, which has pending irq_count/bh_count/preempt issues > that I consider to be about a million times more important than batch > scheduling). > Thats too bad. I've been looking at Ingo's SCHED_BATCH design to help=20 suspend processes with out lock problems while doing multithreaded core=20 dumps. =20 Is there any ETA on the return path to user mode clean up? --mgross