Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.10-rc1-mm2-V0.7.1

[Ingo Molnar]

* Mark_H_Johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx <Mark_H_Johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >what priority does events/0 and events/1 have? keventd handles part of
> >the mouse/keyboard workload.
> The default priorities and not RT.
> 
> ps -eo pid,pri,rtprio,cmd
> ...
>   6  34    -  [events/0]
>   7  34    -  [events/1]
> ...
> I can set those as well but then I'd probably have to follow with
> the X server and everything else in the chain. The starvation problem
> ripples across the system.

X should be scheduled on the other CPU just fine. Only per-CPU kernel
threads (which are affine to their particular CPU) are affected by this
problem - ordinary tasks not. I.e. the system threads that have /0 and
/1 in their name. In theory you should not even need to chrt the hardirq
threads, those should schedule fine too.

	Ingo
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