Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:33:49PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 

>>Lastly, I'd like to be a bit less intrusive with pinned task
>>handling improvements. I think we can do this while still being
>>effective in preventing livelocks.
> 
> 
> We want to see this fixed. Please post your patch and I can let you know
> the test results.
> 

Using the attached patch, a puny dual PIII-650 with ~400MB RAM swapped
itself to death after 20000 infinite loop tasks had been pinned to one
of the CPUs. See how you go.

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