Re: tvtime and the Linux 2.6 scheduler

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon May 24 2004 - 02:13:53 EST



* Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just one other thing - realtime scheduling was basically broken up
> until around 2.6.5. Before starting any tests, please ensure first
> that you are using at least the 2.6.5 kernel. Thanks.

you mean the spurious 'queue to end of prio-queue' bug noticed by Joe
Korty? tvtime should not be affected by this one. This bug only hits if
there are multiple SCHED_FIFO tasks on the same priority level - tvtime
is a single-process application.

Ingo
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