Re: unusual scheduling performance

[Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>]

Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> fs/eventpoll.c |    2 ++
>> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>>--- 25/fs/eventpoll.c~hey	Mon Nov 18 10:13:40 2002
>>+++ 25-akpm/fs/eventpoll.c	Mon Nov 18 10:14:01 2002
>>@@ -328,6 +328,8 @@ void eventpoll_release(struct file *file
>> 	if (list_empty(lsthead))
>> 		return;
>>
>>+	printk("hey!\n");
>>+
> 
> Andrew, if you don't use epoll there's no way you get there. The function
> eventpoll_file_init() initialize the list at each file* init in
> fs/file_table.c
> If you're not using epoll and you get there, someone is screwing up the
> data inside the struct file

That little tidbit isn't even in .47.  Is that patch against one of 
the 2.5.47-mm's?

-- 
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com