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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Matias Sundman <linux@sundmangroup.com>
Cc: "linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: SCHED_FIFO & System()
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:16:23 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <478FD3B7.2030105@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <478EFD4C.9070706@sundmangroup.com>

Matias Sundman wrote:
> Hello,
> I have some strange behavior in one of my systems.
> 
> I have a real-time thread under SCHED_FIFO which is running every 10ms. 
> It is blocking on a semaphore and released by a timer interrupt every 10ms.
> Generally this works really well.
> 
> However, there is a module in the system that makes a / system() / call 
> from c-code ;
> 
>   system("run_my_script");
> 
> By calling and running a bash script. Independent of how the actual 
> script looks like the real time thread does not get scheduled under 80ms 
> -- the time it takes
> for the system() call to finish.

Are you running a preemptible kernel?

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-17 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-17  7:01 SCHED_FIFO & System() Matias Sundman
2008-01-17 22:16 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-01-18  6:38   ` Matias Sundman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-17 22:14 Arnon Kaufman(Work)

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