cvs commit: src/sys/kern sched_4bsd.c

Daniel Eriksson daniel_k_eriksson at telia.com
Tue Jul 13 14:37:48 PDT 2004


John Baldwin wrote:

>   Set TDF_NEEDRESCHED when a higher priority thread is scheduled in
>   sched_add() rather than just doing it in sched_wakeup().  The old
>   ithread preemption code used to set NEEDRESCHED 
> unconditionally if it
>   didn't preempt which masked this bug in SCHED_4BSD.

Does this mean it should be safe to turn preemption back on in param.h (for
a kernel using SHED_4BSD)? Or is this not related to the hard hangs reported
over the last week?

/Daniel




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