Re: [BUG] How to get real-time priority using idle priority

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 08:14:28 EST



* Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> wrote:

> > I haven't been able to reproduce complete hangs, but with your proggy
> > adapted to my quad, _and_ the addition of a SCHED_NORMAL hog, I can
> > reproduce some very bad interactivity, including massive character
> > repeats while attempting to type, and general "lurchiness" (_bad_
> > wakeup latency). I'll poke it with a sharp stick or two.
>
> Would you mind trying the below?

i've applied your fix to tip/sched/urgent and merged it into tip/master.

Brian, you might want to test tip/master, as per:

http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README

which now has this fix included. Can you make it break?

Ingo
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