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

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

plus there's the 'priority inheritance dependency-chain closure' bug
noticed by John Cooper - that should only affect the latency of RT tasks
though.

	Ingo
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