From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270803AbTGPNQi (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:16:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270807AbTGPNQi (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:16:38 -0400 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:9235 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S270803AbTGPNQh (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:16:37 -0400 Message-ID: <3F155536.8090608@aitel.hist.no> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:37:58 +0200 From: Helge Hafting Organization: AITeL, HiST User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: no, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Antonio Vargas CC: Ingo Molnar , Sean Neakums , Andrew Morton , Con Kolivas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test1-mm1 References: <6uwueidhdd.fsf@zork.zork.net> <20030716101949.GE2684@wind.cocodriloo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Antonio Vargas wrote: [...] > It always happened to me when I run "make menuconfig" under gnome-terminal on > redhat 9 with 2.5.73. Is it because of busy-waiting on a variable shared > amongst multiple processes/threads? If so, it smells of a bug in the application, > busy-waiting is _BAD_. Ouch. Well, it is good that scheduler changes made the bug visible, so it can be fixed. Certainly no reason to work around it in the kernel, the effort is better spent on fixing the bug. Distributors can make sure they have fixed their apps before distributing 2.6. Helge Hafting