On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 09:10:01AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:53:27PM -0700, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> > Most of the tasks here are not RR/FIFO/DL tasks. I don't see anything > > in the rtmutex code or documentation that indicates that they don't > > work for normal tasks. From what I can tell the priority gets boosted > > in every case. This may not work as well for CFS tasks as for realtime > > tasks, but it should at least help when there is a large priority > > difference. > > It does something (it used to explicitly ignore OTHER) but its not > something well defined or usable. I looked again, and while it updates the ->prio field for OTHER tasks, that does not seem to cause a change to the actual weight field (which is derived from ->static_prio). So it really should not do anything.. as I remebered it. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
