Re: RT and timers

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Thu Jun 09 2005 - 18:51:10 EST


On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, George Anzinger wrote:

>
> So, in short, I don't see the point to the suggested change. If the kernel is
> late, it is best to let it catch up as fast as it can by looping here. The only
> counter argument that makes sense to me it that in this case we are starving
> other softirqd driven tasks, but that should, if any thing, lighten the timer
> load and let this complete faster.

I'm mainly concerned because that loop never breaks . It seems like there
could be a condition when the loop never stops. For instance , a very
accurate timer interrupt, and timers that continually reset themselves.

Daniel

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