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SubjectRe: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk12-R6

* 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.

Ingo
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