Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [RFC, PATCH] CELL Oprofile SPU profiling updated patch

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Feb 15 2007 - 19:34:07 EST


On Thursday 15 February 2007 22:50, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Is this 1.5ms with interrupts disabled?  This time period is problematic
> from a realtime perspective if so -- need to be able to preempt.

No, interrupts should be enabled here. Still, 1.5ms is probably a little
too long without a cond_resched() in case kernel preemption is disabled.

Arnd <><
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