Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 01:01:21 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.3 Posix scheduling violation for !SCHED_OTHER
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* Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> wrote:

> Andrew,
>  The following fixes a problem where a SCHED_FIFO task would on
> occasion be moved to the end of its runqueue when returned to from a
> preemption. Cause was do to some SCHED_OTHER code in schedule() which
> was being run for tasks of every policy.

yes, indeed this is a bug.

> -	if (next->activated > 0) {
> +	if (!rt_task(next) && next->activated > 0) {

the patch looks good. Andrew, please apply.

	Ingo
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