Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc3-mm3-T3 | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Sat, 09 Oct 2004 01:21:00 -0400 |
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On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 01:09, Con Kolivas wrote: > Lee Revell writes: > > > On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 06:52, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >> i've released the -T3 VP patch: > >> > >> http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc3-mm3-T3 > >> > > > > With VP and PREEMPT in general, does the scheduler always run the > > highest priority process, or do we only preempt if a SCHED_FIFO process > > is runnable? > > Always the highest priority runnable. >
Hmm, interesting. Would there be any advantage to a mode where only SCHED_FIFO tasks can preempt? This seems like a much lighter way to solve the realtime problem.
Lee
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