Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 2004 16:47:23 -0000 (WET) | Subject | Re: [Fwd: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.9-mm1-V0.4] | From | "Rui Nuno Capela" <> |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > i've uploaded -V0.6.3 to the usual place: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ > > which fixes two issues: > > - priorities of SCHED_OTHER tasks not getting properly managed, hence > they could end up 'starving' other SCHED_OTHER tasks pretty > indefinitely. This could possibly solve the 'temporary lockup' > problem reported by Mark H Johnson. > > - fixed the 'high load average' bug > > i dont know whether this will solve the 'hard lockups' reported though. > It could solve your problem because the 'find /' kept running so it > wasnt a hard lockup. I'll keep testing and i'll fix any problem i can > reproduce myself. >
OK. Just tested in a hurry with RT-V0.6.4, and it passed three times in a row my jackd-R + 9*fluidsynth tests, without freezing, so I think the problem was the 'starvation' one.
OTOH, I can say that the results I'm early reading are really an improvement. Fewer xruns and smaller delays. Nice.
Cheers. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc@rncbc.org
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