Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:11:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:11:28 -0500 Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.19]:63389 "EHLO mailout06.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:11:12 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: 520047054719-0001@t-online.de (Oliver Neukum) Reply-To: Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de To: Momchil Velikov , yodaiken@fsmlabs.com Subject: Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:45:40 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: Daniel Phillips , Arjan van de Ven , Roman Zippel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020113223438.A19324@hq.fsmlabs.com> <87bsfx9led.fsf@fadata.bg> In-Reply-To: <87bsfx9led.fsf@fadata.bg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <16Q6V6-207eimC@fwd06.sul.t-online.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 14 January 2002 13:17, Momchil Velikov wrote: > >>>>> "yodaiken" == yodaiken writes: > > yodaiken> It's not even clear how preempt is supposed to interact with > SCHED_FIFO. > > How so ? The POSIX specification is not clear enough or it is not to be > followed ? You can have an rt task block on a lock held by a normal task that was preempted by a rt task of lower priority. The same problem as with the sched_idle patches. Regards Oliver - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/