Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:43:13 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Oliver> You can have an rt task block on a lock held by a normal task that was > Oliver> preempted by a rt task of lower priority. The same problem as with the > Oliver> sched_idle patches. > > This can happen with a non-preemptible kernel too. And it has nothing to > do with scheduling policy.
So why bother adding pre-emption. As you keep saying - it doesnt gain anything
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