Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:59:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:59:11 -0500 Received: from ns.caldera.de ([212.34.180.1]:19356 "EHLO ns.caldera.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:59:06 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:53:22 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Mike Fedyk , Dieter N?tzel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.19-preX: What we really need: -AA patches finally in the tree Message-ID: <20020226175322.A31217@caldera.de> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Mike Fedyk , Dieter N?tzel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200202260135.18913.Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de> <200202260707.g1Q77CJ02138@ns.caldera.de> <20020226162112.GF4393@matchmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020226162112.GF4393@matchmail.com>; from mfedyk@matchmail.com on Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:21:12AM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:21:12AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > You should talk to Andrew Morton, as he plans to do this also. Last time I talked to him he was primarily interested in the VM. > I thought the internals of the scheduler weren't exposed to the rest of the > kernel... They shouldn't, But many old drivers do (and _had to_): current->policy = SCHED_YIELD; schedule(); which isn't possible with the new scheduler. Christoph -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/