From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262538AbTD3Xf2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:35:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262543AbTD3Xf2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:35:28 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:31405 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262538AbTD3Xf1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:35:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 00:47:46 +0100 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: Andrew Morton Cc: Rick Lindsley , solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, frankeh@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: must-fix list for 2.6.0 Message-ID: <20030430234746.GW10374@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20030430121105.454daee1.akpm@digeo.com> <200304302311.h3UNB2H27134@owlet.beaverton.ibm.com> <20030430162108.09dbd019.akpm@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030430162108.09dbd019.akpm@digeo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 04:21:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > menu if there was a kernel build happening at the same time. That is just > utterly broken, so if we're going to leave the sched.c code as-is then we > *require* that all applications be updated to not spin on sched_yield. Excuse me, but WTF do they spin on the sched_yield() in the first place? _That_ sounds like utterly broken...