Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc3-O5

From: Florian Schmidt
Date: Thu Aug 12 2004 - 20:09:26 EST


On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:55:30 -0400
Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Even if it is not a long non-preemptible section, mlockall-test is
> still doing *something* that causes an xrun in jackd. Maybe
> interrupts are being disabled for a long time. Whatever it is, it
> cannot possibly be a jackd bug, because mlockall by an unrelated,
> normal-priority process causes an xrun in the SCHED_FIFO jackd
> process.

Hmm, yes, that makes sense. I wonder: does mlockall have any influence
on IPC?

Flo

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