Re: Why can't I set the priority of softirq-hrt? (Re: 2.6.17-rt1)

[Esben Nielsen]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Esben Nielsen wrote:
>
> > > I have to check, whether the priority is propagated when the softirq is
> > > blocked on a lock. If not its a bug and has to be fixed.
> >
> > I think the simplest solution would be to add
> >
> >          if (p->blocked_on)
> >                  wake_up_process(p);
> >
> > in __setscheduler().
>
> Except that wake_up_process calls try_to_wakeup which grabs the runqueue
> lock, which unfortunately is already held when __setscheduler is called.

Yeah, I saw. Move it out in setscheduler() then. I'll try to fix it, but I 
am not sure I can make a test if it works.

Esben

> -- Steve
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