On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 02:31:43PM -0800, Peter LaDow wrote: > How is the scheduling of the hrtimers softirq thread handled? > > When querying the RT priority of the hrtimer softirq, I get a priority > of 50. But when running a priority 99 thread, we still seem to be > getting interrupted. Shouldn't the hrtimer softirq be put off until > the CPU is idle or a lower priority task is running? The problem isn't just $(cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_runtime_us) being smaller than $(/proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_period_us)? Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -- 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
