Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

Ingo Molnar
2004-07-22T02:03:45Z

* Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> What do you think about deferring softirqs just while in critical
> sections?
>
> I'm not sure how well this works, and it is CONFIG_PREEMPT only but in
> theory it should prevent unbounded softirqs while under locks without
> taking the performance hit of doing the context switch.

i dont think this is sufficient. A high-prio RT task might be performing
something that is important to it but isnt in any critical section. This
includes userspace processing. We dont want to delay it with softirqs.

Ingo