Re: [linux-audio-dev] another kernel patch?

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] another kernel patch?
From: Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen (k.s.matheussen_AT_notam02.no)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 10:34:50 EET

>That's right. But, Paul and I have been working closely with this and
>don't have much faith in the correctness of the 2.4 scheduler. Like
>all non-trivial software components it has bugs, and getting them
>fixed is difficult, if not impossible

I dont quite understand the 2.4 scheduler, but I'm, eh, guessing that
there is about 10% chance the following patch might fix the problem:

kjetism_AT_notam02 ~/linux/linux-2.4.23-rc1/kernel $ diff -u sched.c
sched_g.c
--- sched.c 2003-11-16 14:18:08.000000000 +0100
+++ sched_g.c 2003-12-03 09:31:32.000000000 +0100
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@
                if (p->mm == this_mm || !p->mm)
                        weight += 1;
                weight += 20 - p->nice;
+ if(weight>999) weight=999;
                goto out;
        }

If someone bothers, please explain why it wont, if it doesnt work, and
if anyone knows. This is quite interesting. :) 

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