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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 18:11:20 +0000
From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] "HT scheduler", sched-2.5.63-B3
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On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:07:17AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > > But it was definitely there. 3-5 second _pauses_. Not slowdowns.
> > 
> > It's still there. Red Hat 8.0, 2.5.63. The  thing can pause for 15+
> 
> Oh, well. I didn't actually even verify that UNIX domain sockets will
> cause synchronous wakeups, so the patch may literally be doing nothing at
> all. You can try that theory out by just removing the test for 
> "in_interrupt()".

Sorry, I think I misunderstood what you meant in your comment above. I
haven't actually tried these patches yet, worry not.

regards,
john
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