Re: Issue in PI boosting code in __sched_setscheduler

From: Ronny Meeus
Date: Thu May 07 2015 - 16:18:15 EST


On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:23 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 May 2015 05:14:18 +0200
> Ronny Meeus <ronny.meeus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for looking into this.
>>
>> It looks to me that real-time priority threads are not used in many
>> systems because we discovered already several issues, both in the
>> kernel and glibc while we are using Linux only recently.
>> Do you have a view on this?
>>
>
> View on what?

Whether the real-time priority threads are used a lot.
I have the impression that there are severe issues in the Linux eco
system (Kernel+glibc) when it comes to real-time priority handling.

> Anyway, did you see the patch Thomas sent out?

I did not see, I will have a look right away.

>
> Subject: [PATCH V2] sched: Handle priority boosted tasks proper in setscheduler()
>
> It solves this current issue.
>
> -- Steve
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