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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: timer signal loss on RT
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:08:50 +0100
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On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 05:26 -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:

> compile with "cc rtc.c -o rtc -lrt -lpthread"
> 
> run it and in 10 seconds it should stop and indicate 600 timers signals 
> were caught by the RT thread. On RT, I usually get 0 but often I get some, 
> just not 600.

Increase the priority of ksoftirqd.

-Mike