Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.10-rc2-mm2-V0.7.29-0,and 30-9

From: Lee Revell
Date: Tue Nov 23 2004 - 16:50:11 EST


On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 16:22 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Just curious to why you scale the interrupts from 49 down to 25. What
> would be wrong with keeping all of them at 49 (or whatever). Being a
> FIFO, no interrupt would preempt another. Why would you want the first
> IRQs to be registered have higher priority than (and thus will preempt)
> irqs registered later.

I raised this issue before. I agree that all interrupts should get the
same RT prio by default. Otherwise the default behavior is arbitrary.

Lee

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