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Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 21:15:59 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH]: scheduler complex macros fixes
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On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, mgross wrote:

> Thats too bad.  I've been looking at Ingo's SCHED_BATCH design to help
> suspend processes with out lock problems while doing multithreaded core
> dumps.
> 
> Is there any ETA on the return path to user mode clean up?

oh, there's no fundamental problem here, i'm doing the return-path-cleanup
patch too :-) [which, as a side-effect, also removes the global irq lock.]
I temporarily suspended it for the sake of the SCHED_BATCH feature and
other scheduler maintainance work. But it just got higher priority, so ...

	Ingo

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