linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] RT: scheduler fixes and rt

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Message-Id: <1191944359.6848.18.camel@twins>
Date:	Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:39:19 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	kravetz@...ibm.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	pmorreale@...ell.com, sdietrich@...ell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] RT: scheduler fixes and rt_overload enhancements

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 11:33 -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:

> On the flip side:  Perhaps sending a reschedule-ipi that doesn't
> reschedule is simply misused, and the misuse should be cleaned up
> instead? 

It basically does TIF_WORK_MASK and TIF_NEED_RESCHED is one of the most
frequently used of those. Using it for any other bit in that mask is
IMHO not abuse.



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