Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Jun 2005 16:47:27 -0700 (PDT) | From | Daniel Walker <> | Subject | Re: RT and timers |
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On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, George Anzinger wrote:
> > So, in short, I don't see the point to the suggested change. If the kernel is > late, it is best to let it catch up as fast as it can by looping here. The only > counter argument that makes sense to me it that in this case we are starving > other softirqd driven tasks, but that should, if any thing, lighten the timer > load and let this complete faster.
I'm mainly concerned because that loop never breaks . It seems like there could be a condition when the loop never stops. For instance , a very accurate timer interrupt, and timers that continually reset themselves.
Daniel
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