Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:32:54 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Mark_H_Johnson@raytheon.com
Cc: Karsten Wiese <annabellesgarden@yahoo.de>, Bill Huey <bhuey@lnxw.com>,
       Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>, "K.R. Foley" <kr@cybsft.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Florian Schmidt <mista.tapas@gmx.net>,
       Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>,
       Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>, Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc@rncbc.org>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Michal Schmidt <xschmi00@stud.feec.vutbr.cz>
Subject: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.10-rc1-mm2-V0.7.1
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> X should be scheduled on the other CPU just fine. Only per-CPU kernel
> threads (which are affine to their particular CPU) are affected by
> this problem - ordinary tasks not. I.e. the system threads that have
> /0 and /1 in their name. In theory you should not even need to chrt
> the hardirq threads, those should schedule fine too.

plus there's the 'priority inheritance dependency-chain closure' bug
noticed by John Cooper - that should only affect the latency of RT tasks
though.

	Ingo
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