Re: Pin-pointing the root of unusual application latencies

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Jul 25 2007 - 09:38:53 EST



* John Sigler <linux.kernel@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > does your test-app have higher priority than softirq--4 ?
>
> PID 4 is [softirq-timer/0] and has priority 50 in SCHED_FIFO. My
> process has priority 80 in SCHED_RR. It is waiting for IRQ10.
>
> My user-space app has higher priority than everything except PID 2
> which is [posix_cpu_timer]

well what priority does the IRQ 10 kernel thread have? It should be prio
80 too if it's in your critical path.

Ingo
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