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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	mingo@elte.hu, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] possible scheduler deadlock in 2.6.16
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:17:47 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060322121747.GE30422@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4421307F.8020300@yahoo.com.au>

 
Hi Nick,

> You're right. I can't think of a better fix, although we've been trying
> to avoid adding cpu to the runqueue structure.
>
> I was going to suggest moving more work into wake_sleeping_dependent
> instead, but cores with 4 and more threads now make that less desirable
> I suppose.

My thoughts too. I wasnt sure if davem is planning to use the sibling
code for his niagara work, but locking us down to 2 siblings sounds like
a bad idea.

Anton

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-22 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-22 10:41 [PATCH] possible scheduler deadlock in 2.6.16 Anton Blanchard
2006-03-22 11:09 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-22 12:17   ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2006-03-22 22:52   ` Peter Williams
2006-03-22 13:16 ` Ingo Molnar

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