Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: O(1) scheduler fix for 2.5-ia64

David Mosberger
2002-11-05T18:54:31Z

>>>>> On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:35:35 +0100, Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de> said:

Erich> This can happen when the runqueue lock is held during a
Erich> context switch which requires wrapping around the context
Erich> numbers:

Ah, right. I really dislike the fact that the locking rules for
platform-independent locks will vary from one platform to the other.
Hopefully someone will look into fixing that at some point.

--david