RE: O(1) scheduler seems to lock up on sched_FIFO and sched_RR ta sks

Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2003-06-19T06:38:37Z

> From: Ingo Molnar [mailto:mingo@elte.hu]
>
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:
>
> > My point here is: I am trying to trace where this program is making use
> > of workqueues inside of the kernel, and I can find none. The only place
> > where I need to look some more is inside the timer code, but in a quick
> > glance, it seems it is not being used, so why is it affected by the
> > reprioritization of the events/0 thread? George, can you help me here?
>
> well, printk (console input/output) can already make use of keventd.

Then some output would show on my serial console when events/0 is
reprioritized...

OTOH, what do you think of Robert's idea of adding 20 levels of
priorities for the kernel's sole use?

Iñaky Pérez-González -- Not speaking for Intel -- all opinions are my own
(and my fault)