Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Aug 2004 19:48:52 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [patch] preempt-timing-on-2.6.8-rc2-O2 |
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On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 22:39, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> You were idling at the time, so the latency affected nothing, except >> perhaps task migration on SMP.
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 10:47:09PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > Would it be possible to detect this situation and treat it like a > preemptible section, just so the sheer volume of printks does not cause > a problem?
It's probably actually a false positive. What I was explaining was why, if it were in fact a non-preemptible critical section, it wouldn't cause xruns.
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