>> This critical thread is at RR priority 50. Try to put it higher than the irq thread handling your HD hardware. I've even encountered hardware where I had to put the ATA thread in the SHED_OTHER domain - see [1] for the thread. >> I used a HR timer thread with RR pri 55 to wakeup the critical thread >> every 1 milli sec to do the job. Which prio is the ksoftirqd running at? The HRTIMER interrupts are routed through it so it also has to be high enough. I got burned with this myself [2] Regards Stano [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rt-users/msg08711.html [2] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rt-users/msg08745.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html