Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:06:37 +0200 | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.11, IDE: Strange scheduling behaviour: high-pri RT process not scheduled? |
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:52:05 +0200, kus Kusche Klaus <kus@keba.com> wrote:
> However, things break seriously when exercising the CF card in parallel > (e.g. with a dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null): > > * The rtc *interrupt handler* is delayed for up to 250 *micro*seconds. > This is very bad for my purpose, but easy to explain: It is roughly the > time needed to transfer 512 Bytes from a CF card which can transfer 2 > Mbyte/sec, and obviously, the CPU blocks all interrupts while making pio > > transfers. (Why? Is this really necessary?) > > (I know because I instrumented the rtc irq handler with rdtscl(), too)
hdparm -u1 /dev/hda
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