On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 07:50 -0700, Khalid Aziz wrote: > It is definitely not an attempt to solve any kind of RT problem. No no, I'm saying that giving certain tasks special dispensations effectively elevates them. Temporarily or otherwise, they play by different rules, will block more deserving tasks, and it's not cut and dried that that blocking will not do more harm than good. Is it a clear win to make say some kworker or other global asset wait when it could have preempted and been gone in usecs? Nope. -Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
