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More changes for 2.6.16

More changes for 2.6.16

Posted Jan 31, 2006 21:46 UTC (Tue) by efexis (guest, #26355)
In reply to: More changes for 2.6.16 by mingo
Parent article: More changes for 2.6.16

Isn't the usual thing to give the waiting processes cpu cycles to the idle task that's holding the lock? I thought this happened at a level within the kernel anyway (from what I've read only, I've been nowhere near the code so apologise if i'm talkin out my arse).


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