Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] another kernel patch?
From: Takashi Iwai (tiwai_AT_suse.de)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 16:44:52 EET
At 29 Nov 2003 22:03:09 -0600,
Jack O'Quin wrote:
>
> Roger Larsson <roger.larsson_AT_norran.net> writes:
>
> > > That's right. But, Paul and I have been working closely with this and
> > > don't have much faith in the correctness of the 2.4 scheduler.
> >
> > Have you told kernel developers about this?
> > This can be rather critical in embedded systems.
>
> No. It's rather difficult to prove. There's no "smoking gun".
>
> But, I have no reason to believe that it works correctly, and I
> suspect that it probably does not.
as Roger pointed, the O(1) scheduler does quite simple tasks for RT
processes. it *should* work. if it deson't work, it's a bug in the
calculation of priority or so.
anyway, it's nice for debugging, if you can reproduce it...
Takashi
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