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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:41:31 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Dieter =?iso-8859-1?Q?N=FCtzel?= <Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Preemption Latency Measurement Tool
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Those inodes lines reminded me one thing, you may want to give it a try:

--- 2.4.10pre12aa1/fs/inode.c.~1~	Thu Sep 20 01:44:07 2001
+++ 2.4.10pre12aa1/fs/inode.c	Thu Sep 20 08:37:33 2001
@@ -295,6 +295,12 @@
 			 * so we have to start looking from the list head.
 			 */
 			tmp = head;
+
+			if (unlikely(current->need_resched)) {
+				spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
+				schedule();
+				spin_lock(&inode_lock);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
Andrea