cvs commit: src/sys/kern sched_4bsd.c

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 13 July 2004 05:36 pm, Daniel Eriksson wrote:
> 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?

I haven't yet had time to sit down and look at the hard hangs.  It is probably 
still not quite safe to turn preemption back on.

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