David, thanks for pointing this out. Ofcourse, it has be reset at that point. Since it is still running, it actually proves that priority overwrites for reservations work. Did you have a chance to run it on the offending app. I don't have that one, hence I only tried on kernel builds etc. Here is the update patch. -- Hubertus (frankeh@us.ibm.com) > Davide Libenzi @lists.sourceforge.net on > 07/17/2001 02:00:45 PM > > Sent by: lse-tech-admin@lists.sourceforge.net > > To: Hubertus Frnake > cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, > ak@suse.de > Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: CPU affinity & IPI latency (FIX)_ > > On 17-Jul-2001 Hubertus Frnake wrote: > > In an attempt to inline the code, somehow the tabs got lost. So here is > the > > attached correct patch fo 2.4.5. Please try and let me know whether you > > see your problems disappear and/or others arise. > > The sketchy writeup is still the same. > > Did You tried the patch ? > Maybe this could help : > > + next = cpu_resched(this_cpu); > + if (next) { > + cpu_resched(this_cpu) = NULL; > - next = p; > + goto found_next; > + } > > - Davide > > _______________________________________________ > Lse-tech mailing list > Lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lse-tech