bou...@antioche.eu.org (Manuel Bouyer) writes: >But the clock softint shouldn't be locked out for 16s, ever.
Then the clock softint must have a higher priority than everything else including hard interrupts. Obviously that's not how the system is designed, there are no limits on how long specific events may take and thus no guarantee for lower priority tasks to actually execute with a certain time. That would be some kind of real-time system. Such systems also rarely panic if they detect a violation of their rules. In any case, locking out lower priority tasks by an overwhelmed network layer probably isn't the bug that we look for.