Re: 2.6.14-rt1

From: Carlos Antunes
Date: Wed Nov 02 2005 - 09:45:14 EST


On 11/2/05, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Carlos Antunes <cmantunes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > running the code i simply get:
> > >
> > > ~$ ./timing
> > > Failed to create thread # 382
>
> i suspect this is due to the stack ulimit being too high. Try something
> like 'ulimit -s 128', which will make it 128K, instead of the default
> 8MB.
>

Ingo,

First of all, thank you for all the great work you've contributed to
the Linux community.

Now the question: do you have any ideas about what might make
SCHED_OTHER perform better than SCHED_FIFO when in the presence of a
great number of (mostly) sleeping threads?

Thanks!

Carlos

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