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Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 11:07:51 -0500
From: Carlos Antunes <cmantunes@gmail.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rt1
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On 11/2/05, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner.  I was already getting ready for
> bed last night when you sent me your program.  So I'm just getting
> around to looking into this now.
>

Hey, a man has got to sleep every now and then! :-)

>
> To answer your question of why SCHED_OTHER may be preforming better than
> SCHED_FIFO (although it shouldn't), probably shows something in either
> the timing code, or the priority inheritance.  Since a SCHED_OTHER
> thread will skip the PI and other things to get it to perform
> reliable.
>

And you know what? The new rt3 solved the problem. Meanig that
SCHED_FIFO now gives better results than SCHED_OTHER.


THANKS INGO!  ;-)


>
> Now could you post/send your CONFIG_FILE. I'm currently getting a test
> machine ready to run your program.
>

Given rt3 changes, do you still need my config?

Thanks!

Carlos


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