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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Ian Collinson <icollinson@imerge.co.uk>
Cc: "'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@zip.com.au>, Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andrea@suse.de
Subject: Re: realtime scheduling problems with 2.4 linux kernel >= 2.4.10
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 14:17:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020605141755.A1410@averell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C0D45ABB3F45D5118BBC00508BC292DB09C99A@imgserv04>

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:53:06PM +0200, Ian Collinson wrote:

> 
> Are there any potentially negative consequences of this fix, apart from
> those already mentioned?

I don't think so. 

It could still fail when you install a prio=99, SCHED_FIFO process.

> I certainly vote for this feature being preserved, as it is extremely useful
> for debugging realtime priority apps.  FYI, we narrowed it down to breaking
> in either 2.4.10-pre11 or pre12. 

That was when the low latency console changes went in. Before that console
switches could interrupt scheduling for a long time, causing problems
for other realtime people. The change was to move the expensive parts
of the console switch to keventd.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-05 12:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-05 11:53 realtime scheduling problems with 2.4 linux kernel >= 2.4.10 Ian Collinson
2002-06-05 12:17 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-06-05 18:05   ` george anzinger
2002-06-05 18:13     ` Robert Love
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-30 17:54 Ian Collinson
2002-05-31 18:28 ` Mike Kravetz
2002-05-31 19:41   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-06-01 17:05   ` Andi Kleen
2002-06-03 16:03     ` Mike Kravetz
2002-06-03 20:08       ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-03 20:13         ` Robert Love
2002-06-03 21:09           ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-03 21:07         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-06-03 20:12       ` Andi Kleen

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