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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 18:54:31 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: O(1) scheduler fix for 2.5-ia64
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>>>>> 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