Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] The latest GM RPM's from Johnny's site.

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Craig,

Do you think that :
- we have to find another fix for the IXJ driver and keep the current
code
OR
- we have to reintroduce the Yield () call and find another fix for the
2.6

I think that we have no other solution than going for the first solution
:(


Le lun 02/02/2004 à 11:02, Craig Southeren a écrit :
> Damien,
> 
> I've not used an IXJ driver on Windows or Linux for over six months, so
> I am afraid I have no useful suggestions on this.
> 
> I was always uncomfortable with the Yield as a fix for the driver
> problem but as I had no better suggestion, and it certainly did seem
> to work, I was happy to go with it. 
> 
>    Craig
> 
> On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 10:00:10 +0100
> Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com> wrote:
> 
> > Le lun 02/02/2004 à 09:48, George a écrit :
> > > Yes Damien, with microtelco, it is definitely a problem in the code
> > > because I backed up to the previous version and it works ok again.
> > > 
> > 
> > Are you using RedHat 9 ?
> > If so, I know what the problem is .
> > 
> > A while ago, Derek, author of the nixj driver, added a call to Yield ()
> > in the function that signals a Mutex () so that the driver works again
> > with NTPL provided on RH 9. That fixed the problem.
> > 
> > However, the recent upgrade to the 2.6 kernel prohibits to use
> > sched_yield () in such a circumstance and it was removed because it
> > makes OpenH323 programs unusable with the 2.6 kernel under load. The
> > Yield () call was thus removed and the problems of the nixj/ixj driver
> > on RH is back.
> > 
> > Derek, Craig, can you comment on this?
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