From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264256AbUEXLpo (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 07:45:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264255AbUEXLpo (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 07:45:44 -0400 Received: from ktown.kde.org ([131.246.103.200]:8625 "HELO ktown.kde.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264254AbUEXLpn (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 07:45:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 13:45:41 +0200 From: Oswald Buddenhagen To: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: tvtime and the Linux 2.6 scheduler Message-ID: <20040524114541.GA869@ugly.local> Mail-Followup-To: Kernel Mailing List References: <20040523154859.GC22399@dumbterm.net> <20040524092057.GA26715@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040524092057.GA26715@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:20:57AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Billy Biggs wrote: > > The theory is that Linux classifies this as a CPU hog regardless of > > its priority, and preempts tvtime with other processes. [...] > > this would indicate a pretty broken scheduler. To prove (or exclude) > this possibility, could you apply the attached debugging patch? > done. no messages in the kernel syslog. greetings -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done.