[PATCH] "interactivity changes", sched-2.5.64-B2
This fixes the SMP runqueue locking bug when updating the wakers priority. It also includes: - only update the priority and do a requeueing if the sleep average has changed. (this does not happen for pure CPU hogs or pure interactive tasks, so no need to requeue/recalc-prio in that case.) [All the necessary values are available at that point already, so gcc should have an easy job making this branch really cheap.] - do not do a full task activation in the migration-thread path - that is supposed to be near-atomic anyway. - fix up comments I solved the SMP locking bug by moving the requeueing outside of try_to_wake_up(). It does not matter that the priority update is not atomically done now, since the current process wont do anything inbetween. (well, it could get preempted in a preemptible kernel, but even that wont do any harm.)
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