On Thursday 19 June 2008 02:16, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Nick Piggin wrote: > > There are _some_ cases where it can be used, but nobody has been > > able to come up with compelling uses really. I don't think this > > case is helped very much either because the logic in there using > > preempt-disable is fine, isn't it? > > > > Except that it should also have a cond_resched in it. Seems like > > an ideal place to put cond_resched because it is not a fastpath. > > Does it really need a cond_resched? preempt_enable when it goes to zero > will already check to see if it should schedule. It doesn't really need one, but of course having one would help non preempt kernels. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html