Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P0

Lee Revell
2004-08-16T03:54:10Z

On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 23:46, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 23:36, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > doh - i think i found a brown-paperbag bug.
> >
> > Heh, this would explain all those latency traces with repeated
> > calls to voluntary_resched...
>
> hm, didnt those traces show preempt_schedule()?
>

Yes, they did.

Anyway, the change to sched.c fixes the mlockall bug, it works perfectly
now. Thanks!

I will try next with /dev/random disabled. Don't most/many new machines
have a hardware RNG that would eliminate the need for this code?

Lee