* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:28:04 -0700
> "Paul E. McKenney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > + while (!startwriters)
> > + barrier(); /* Force scheduler to spread over CPUs. */
>
> one wonders whether a cpu_relax() would be a bit nicer here. That
> implicitly does a barrier().
>
> This patch doesn't make much sense for non-SMP builds?
i think this patch should be unnecessary because we found the real SMP
balancing bug in the upstream scheduler causing this rcu problem, see:
commit 92c4ca5c3a5e180e9762438db235f41d192cb955
Author: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat Jun 23 17:16:33 2007 -0700
sched: fix next_interval determination in idle_balance()
Ingo
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