Re: [patch] preempt-timing-on-2.6.8-rc2-O2

William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-08T02:49:06Z

On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 22:39, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> You were idling at the time, so the latency affected nothing, except
>> perhaps task migration on SMP.

On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 10:47:09PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> Would it be possible to detect this situation and treat it like a
> preemptible section, just so the sheer volume of printks does not cause
> a problem?

It's probably actually a false positive. What I was explaining was why,
if it were in fact a non-preemptible critical section, it wouldn't cause
xruns.

-- wli