[linux-audio-dev] another kernel patch?

[Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen]

>That's right. But, Paul and I have been working closely with this and
>don't have much faith in the correctness of the 2.4 scheduler. Like
>all non-trivial software components it has bugs, and getting them
>fixed is difficult, if not impossible

I dont quite understand the 2.4 scheduler, but I'm, eh, guessing that
there is about 10% chance the following patch might fix the problem:

kjetism at notam02 ~/linux/linux-2.4.23-rc1/kernel $ diff -u sched.c
sched_g.c
--- sched.c     2003-11-16 14:18:08.000000000 +0100
+++ sched_g.c   2003-12-03 09:31:32.000000000 +0100
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@
                if (p->mm == this_mm || !p->mm)
                        weight += 1;
                weight += 20 - p->nice;
+               if(weight>999) weight=999;
                goto out;
        }



If someone bothers, please explain why it wont, if it doesnt work, and
if anyone knows. This is quite  interesting. :)


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