RE: Debugging kernel semaphore contention and priority inversion

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Fri Aug 19 2005 - 00:26:01 EST


At 08:50 AM 8/18/2005 -0600, Davda, Bhavesh P \(Bhavesh\) wrote:

> Sounds like there must be another player who is RT prio + spinning.

Very good! Yes, I left out that piece of detail in my original posting.
There is a real low priority (4) SCHED_FIFO (hence still higher than any
SCHED_OTHER) task spinning.

That's a (fairly) deadly bug.

-Mike

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