[linux-audio-dev] another kernel patch?

[Takashi Iwai]

At 29 Nov 2003 22:03:09 -0600,
Jack O'Quin wrote:
> 
> Roger Larsson <roger.larsson at norran.net> writes:
> 
> > > That's right.  But, Paul and I have been working closely with this and
> > > don't have much faith in the correctness of the 2.4 scheduler.
> > 
> > Have you told kernel developers about this?
> > This can be rather critical in embedded systems.
> 
> No.  It's rather difficult to prove.  There's no "smoking gun". 
> 
> But, I have no reason to believe that it works correctly, and I
> suspect that it probably does not.

as Roger pointed, the O(1) scheduler does quite simple tasks for RT
processes.  it *should* work.  if it deson't work, it's a bug in the
calculation of priority or so.

anyway, it's nice for debugging, if you can reproduce it...


Takashi