From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264026AbUEXHPl (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 03:15:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263664AbUEXHOZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 03:14:25 -0400 Received: from smtp105.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.169.225]:47225 "HELO smtp105.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264026AbUEXHOO (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 03:14:14 -0400 Message-ID: <40B1A0C2.60207@yahoo.com.au> Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 17:14:10 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040401 Debian/1.6-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Con Kolivas , Billy Biggs , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: tvtime and the Linux 2.6 scheduler References: <20040523154859.GC22399@dumbterm.net> <200405240254.20171.kernel@kolivas.org> <20040524084334.GB24967@elte.hu> <40B19D15.1090105@yahoo.com.au> <20040524091243.GB26183@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20040524091243.GB26183@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Nick Piggin wrote: > > >>Just one other thing - realtime scheduling was basically broken up >>until around 2.6.5. Before starting any tests, please ensure first >>that you are using at least the 2.6.5 kernel. Thanks. > > > you mean the spurious 'queue to end of prio-queue' bug noticed by Joe > Korty? Yes I did mean that one. tvtime should not be affected by this one. This bug only hits if > there are multiple SCHED_FIFO tasks on the same priority level - tvtime > is a single-process application. > Yes I see.