hello Juergen, On 12/20/07, Juergen Beisert <jbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 20 December 2007 13:45, Jaswinder Singh wrote: > > So I am curious, if possible, user can switch softirq-threads or IRQs > > RT tasks to non-RT tasks for slow hardware or least important hardware > > for NON-RT tasks. So this will improve RT behaviour. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Why? > > IMHO: Simply decrease the RT priority of less important IRQs or increase all > other more important IRQs. IRQs are always more important than other > processes in a system, also in non RT systems. > In RT Kernel we have :- RT Tasks and Non-RT tasks. So we can also support :- RT softirq-threads/IRQs and non-RT softirq-threads/IRQs So RT softirq-threads/IRQs for RT Tasks and non-RT softirq-threads/IRQs for non-RT Tasks. OR also remove Non-RT tasks from RT Kernel and simply decrease the RT priority of less important task as per your suggestions. Thank you, Jaswinder Singh. > Juergen > -- > Dipl.-Ing. Juergen Beisert | http://www.pengutronix.de > Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry > Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 > Vertretung Sued/Muenchen, Germany > Phone: +49-8766-939 228 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-9 > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
