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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why does the 2.6.37 scheduler hate RT tasks?
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:14:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1296645265.26581.307.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110202011049.GA15084@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 17:10 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Hello, Peter,
> 
> If I create an SCHED_FIFO-priority kthread in pre-2.6.37 kernels,
> things work nicely.  If I try in in later kernels, __disable_runtime()
> gets upset occasionally during CPU-hotplug calls when CPUs are inserted.
> If I make the exact same kthreads run SCHED_NORMAL, no problem.

> PS.  The code at kernel/sched_rt.c:466 is "BUG_ON(want);" in
>      __disable_runtime().  Config attached in case that helps.

Hrmm.. weird.. ok I'll have a look at that.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-02 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-02  1:10 Why does the 2.6.37 scheduler hate RT tasks? Paul E. McKenney
2011-02-02 11:14 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-02-14 14:55 ` Yong Zhang
2011-02-14 15:14   ` Paul E. McKenney

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