[PATCH] possible scheduler deadlock in 2.6.16

Ingo Molnar mingo at elte.hu
Thu Mar 23 00:16:46 EST 2006


* Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org> wrote:

> One way to solve this is to always take runqueues in cpu id order. To 
> do this we add a cpu variable to the runqueue and check it in the 
> double runqueue locking functions.
> 
> Thoughts?

it's fine with me - the overhead to double_rq_lock() is minimal, and 
it's not critical code either.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte.hu>

	Ingo



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