Re: low priority soft RT?

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 29 Jul 1999 21:07:52 +0200


> Yes, but if you extended your range, you would have "deadlock with
> upperbound of minute" situation, which is very bad, also.

What's wrong with simply promoting the SCHED_IDLE task to normal
priority while it's in the kernel?

That leaves only user-space deadlocks, e.g. a locked file, which I don't
think we should be worring about here.

-- Jamie

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