From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 19:15:59 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: [PATCH]: scheduler complex macros fixes Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, mgross wrote: > Thats too bad. I've been looking at Ingo's SCHED_BATCH design to help > suspend processes with out lock problems while doing multithreaded core > dumps. > > Is there any ETA on the return path to user mode clean up? oh, there's no fundamental problem here, i'm doing the return-path-cleanup patch too :-) [which, as a side-effect, also removes the global irq lock.] I temporarily suspended it for the sake of the SCHED_BATCH feature and other scheduler maintainance work. But it just got higher priority, so ... Ingo