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From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Changing real time priority of interrupt handler thread
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 11:37:14 -0700
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Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> In case it was not clear, I want to run the IRQ handler of the serial
> ports at a higher priority than the other ones (like network, disk,
> etc.) to avoid buffer overruns.

Have you tried using the rtctl utility and the /etc/rtgroups file?


thanks,
Nivedita