Re: timer signal loss on RT

Mark Hounschell
2012-03-10T11:53:33Z

On 03/10/2012 06:34 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2012, Mark Hounschell wrote:
>> I'm sure you can find many things wrong with this test case but I'm not
>> sending it for discussion on the merits, or certainly the lack of, an
>> application that contains a cpu hog, but only to show what I think is a
>> problem with RT kernels.
>
> Nope, PEBKAC.
>
> Timer signals are delivered via ksoftirqd, so your cpu hog prevents
> ksoftirqd frum running.
>

Does ksoftirqd deliver timer signals in vanilla?

Thanks
Mark