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
