On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 02:23:39PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Right, so another approach might be to simply swap the vruntime between > curr and p. Can't that cause others to stave? For ex: consider a cpu p0 having these tasks: p0 -> A0 B0 A1 A0/A1 have entered some sort of AB<->BA spin-deadlock, as a result A0 wants to direct yield to A1 which wants to direct yield to A0. If we keep swapping their runtimes, can't it starve B0? - vatsa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
