From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270486AbTHQSbQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:31:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270489AbTHQSbP (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:31:15 -0400 Received: from mail.jlokier.co.uk ([81.29.64.88]:21376 "EHLO mail.jlokier.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270486AbTHQS3s (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:29:48 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:29:36 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Mike Galbraith Cc: Con Kolivas , linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , gaxt Subject: Re: Scheduler activations (IIRC) question Message-ID: <20030817182936.GC2822@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030817072115.0198f398@pop.gmx.net> <5.2.1.1.2.20030816080614.01a0e418@pop.gmx.net> <20030815235431.GT1027@matchmail.com> <200308160149.29834.kernel@kolivas.org> <20030815230312.GD19707@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <20030815235431.GT1027@matchmail.com> <5.2.1.1.2.20030816080614.01a0e418@pop.gmx.net> <5.2.1.1.2.20030817072115.0198f398@pop.gmx.net> <5.2.1.1.2.20030817100457.019d0c70@pop.gmx.net> <5.2.1.1.2.20030817195509.019d2de8@pop.gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20030817195509.019d2de8@pop.gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mike Galbraith wrote: > This, and the continue my slice in some other thread thing is what > made me think you'd have to deal with a schedule happening to your > worker thread with some kind of handler, and do all kinds of evil > things within... basically overloading the entire scheduler for that class. Ew. Very nasty. -- Jamie