On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 12:56 -0700, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote: > > Then theres a latency problem in the kernel. A sleeping high priorioty > SCHED_FIFO thread must be woken up in time even if another lower > priority SCHED_FIFO thread is buzy-looping. And currently, unless the > softirq timer has priority 99, that condition can not be fullfilled. > > So, the softirq timer must run with priority 99. I think it's unusual to want a high priority SCHED_FIFO thread to be awakened by a timer. What are you trying to do? Lee
