Re: [linux-audio-user] -rt IRQ handler priorities

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Wed May 10 2006 - 15:26:08 EEST

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 14:13 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 13:32 +0200, Wolfgang Hoffmann wrote:
> > Thomas, does this dynamic priority support work when running softirq-timer/0
> > at SCHED_OTHER? I tried, and it seems to work here, I just want to make sure
> > it's valid to do so.
>
> The softirq-timer/0 is not affected by this. Only the timers which are
> in the hrtimer subsystem are handled that way.
>
> Thats currently: nano_sleep, itimer, posix_timers

Sorry, I'm more confused than I was at the beginning of the thread.

How can the OP's problem (setting softirq-timer to SCHED_FIFO priority
99 is required to get sleep() to work, but causes large latencies when
rt_secret_rebuild() runs) be addressed? Is the only solution to enable
high res timers?

Lee
Received on Wed May 10 16:15:09 2006

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