On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 22:47 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Currently my fix is in yield to lower the priority of the task calling > > yield and raise it after the schedule. This is NOT a proper fix. It's > > just a hack so I can get by it and test other parts. > > yeah, yield() is a quite RT-incompatible concept, which could livelock > an upstream kernel just as much - if the task in question is SCHED_FIFO. > Almost all yield() uses should be eliminated from the upstream kernel, > step by step.
Now the question is, who will fix it? Preferably the maintainers, but I don't know how much of a priority this is to them. I don't have the time now to look at this and understand enough about the code to be able to make a proper fix, and I'm sure you have other things to do too. -- Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
