Re: tvtime and the Linux 2.6 scheduler

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Mon May 24 2004 - 02:19:00 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Just one other thing - realtime scheduling was basically broken up
until around 2.6.5. Before starting any tests, please ensure first
that you are using at least the 2.6.5 kernel. Thanks.


you mean the spurious 'queue to end of prio-queue' bug noticed by Joe
Korty?

Yes I did mean that one.

tvtime should not be affected by this one. This bug only hits if
there are multiple SCHED_FIFO tasks on the same priority level - tvtime
is a single-process application.


Yes I see.
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