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SubjectRe: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch
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On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 02:45, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i'd agree with turning most of the finegrained per-task (non-irq-safe)
> spinlocks into mutexes (or spin-mutexes). But the central locks that an
> RT task would likely hit need to remain spinlocks i believe.
>
> plus there are central mutexes too that are in 'hiding' currently but
> could cause latencies just as much.

Here are patches that convert spinlocks into kernel mutexes with
priority inheritance. They look reasonably clean, and might be
interesting to try.

http://inf3-www.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de/research/linux/mutex/mutex.html


Best regards,

Eric St-Laurent

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