Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

[520047054719-0001 _at_ t-online.de (Oliver Neukum)]

On Monday 14 January 2002 13:17, Momchil Velikov wrote:
> >>>>> "yodaiken" == yodaiken  <yodaiken _at_ fsmlabs.com> 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
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