Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 9 Sep 2004 22:51:41 +0200 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk12-R6 |
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* Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> > I believe Scott Wood suggested a fix back when I first reported this, > > have to check my mailbox. Scott? > > Nope, checking the original thread, Scott pointed out that any RT > process will have mlockall'ed anyway and thus won't be affected by > this latency. So, this one would be cool to fix, but it's not a > problem as such.
RT threads will be affected by this latency just as much because it's a non-preemptable critical section. You are right in that an RT task wont see the overhead itself because it doesnt generate swap entries.
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