> Oliver> You can have an rt task block on a lock held by a normal task that was
> Oliver> preempted by a rt task of lower priority. The same problem as with the
> Oliver> sched_idle patches.
>
> This can happen with a non-preemptible kernel too. And it has nothing to
> do with scheduling policy.
So why bother adding pre-emption. As you keep saying - it doesnt
gain anything
Alan
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