From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
gaxt <gaxt@rogers.com>
Subject: Re: Scheduler activations (IIRC) question
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:46:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030817184602.GA3191@mail.jlokier.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20030817195509.019d2de8@pop.gmx.net>
Mike Galbraith wrote:
> ...once the shadow task is enqueued and runnable, there's nothing to
> prevent the worker thread from exhausting it's slice before it can put it's
> shadow back to sleep.
This is why the shadow needs to check whether the active task is
runnable when the shadow returns from FUTEX_WAIT. Reading
/proc/pid/stat alas, but hey that's what we have.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-17 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-15 15:49 [PATCH] O16int for interactivity Con Kolivas
2003-08-15 18:26 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-15 18:45 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-08-16 2:31 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-18 15:46 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-18 15:43 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-18 19:48 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-18 22:46 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-15 19:00 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-08-16 2:14 ` [PATCH]O16.1int was " Con Kolivas
2003-08-15 21:01 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-15 23:03 ` Scheduler activations (IIRC) question Jamie Lokier
2003-08-15 23:54 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-16 0:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-16 6:14 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-16 14:18 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-17 5:51 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-17 6:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-17 7:05 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-17 8:34 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-17 17:12 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-17 17:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-08-17 18:26 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-17 18:27 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-17 18:29 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-17 18:46 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2003-08-16 20:54 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-08-16 21:39 ` Jamie Lokier
[not found] ` <20030817144203.J670@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de>
2003-08-17 20:02 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-18 0:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-18 10:38 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-08-18 13:09 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-16 7:01 ` [PATCH] O16int for interactivity Con Kolivas
2003-08-18 10:08 ` Apurva Mehta
2003-08-18 10:30 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-18 12:13 ` Apurva Mehta
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