The SPI thingies request FIFO-99 by default, reduce this to FIFO-50. FIFO-99 is the very highest priority available to SCHED_FIFO and it not a suitable default; it would indicate the SPI work is the most important work on the machine. Cc: Benson Leung <bleung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Guenter Roeck <groeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-spi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_spi.c | 2 +- drivers/spi/spi.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_spi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_spi.c @@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ static int cros_ec_spi_devm_high_pri_all struct cros_ec_spi *ec_spi) { struct sched_param sched_priority = { - .sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO - 1, + .sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO / 2, }; int err; --- a/drivers/spi/spi.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi.c @@ -1434,7 +1434,7 @@ static void spi_pump_messages(struct kth */ static void spi_set_thread_rt(struct spi_controller *ctlr) { - struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO - 1 }; + struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO / 2 }; dev_info(&ctlr->dev, "will run message pump with realtime priority\n");