> Thats too bad. I've been looking at Ingo's SCHED_BATCH design to help
> suspend processes with out lock problems while doing multithreaded core
> dumps.
>
> Is there any ETA on the return path to user mode clean up?
oh, there's no fundamental problem here, i'm doing the return-path-cleanup
patch too :-) [which, as a side-effect, also removes the global irq lock.]
I temporarily suspended it for the sake of the SCHED_BATCH feature and
other scheduler maintainance work. But it just got higher priority, so ...
Ingo
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