From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3F155536.8090608@aitel.hist.no> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:37:58 +0200 From: Helge Hafting MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test1-mm1 References: <6uwueidhdd.fsf@zork.zork.net> <20030716101949.GE2684@wind.cocodriloo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Antonio Vargas Cc: Ingo Molnar , Sean Neakums , Andrew Morton , Con Kolivas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Antonio Vargas wrote: [...] > It always happened to me when I run "make menuconfig" under gnome-terminal on > redhat 9 with 2.5.73. Is it because of busy-waiting on a variable shared > amongst multiple processes/threads? If so, it smells of a bug in the application, > busy-waiting is _BAD_. Ouch. Well, it is good that scheduler changes made the bug visible, so it can be fixed. Certainly no reason to work around it in the kernel, the effort is better spent on fixing the bug. Distributors can make sure they have fixed their apps before distributing 2.6. Helge Hafting -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org