From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 Description of problem: We have developped a simple program for testing the creation of threads in the SCHED_RR class on multi-processors system. We have found an issue on IA32 architecture. Some threads do not get started. Tests shown that the problem is reproducible on both NPTL and LinuxThreads, on various kernel 2.6.x kernel version (vanilla or Red-Hat tailored), as well various glibc 2.3.x version. Whether the proposed test is broken, or there is an issue somewhere. In that latter case, we believe this could be in the kernel. The test /test_schedrr3.c.gz/ can be downloaded from the NPTL Bull Open Source forum. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel 2.6.5-1.358smp How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. download the /test_schedrr3.c.gz/, unzip and compile. 2. run the program. Start for instance 25 threads at prio 3 on a SMP machine. Actual Results: The test times out showing the some threads didn't start. Expected Results: Theoritically, it should PASS. That is all the threads are created and running in the SCHED_RR class at the given priority. Additional info: IMPORTANT! The test should be run on a multi-processor (>=2 CPUs) machine. On a single-CPU machine, it must TIMEOUT.
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