On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:55:59 +0100 Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote:
> > >I would strongly urge you not to use that as an example, because its > > >dead wrong design. An RT thread (be it RR,FIFO or DL) should _NEVER_ do > > >blocking IO. > > Well, but it does happen in reality :) > > Yeah, I know, my point was more about not encouraging people to do this > by explicitly mentioning it. Unless it is mentioned that this is fine for soft real-time uses, such as what Luca described (mplayer and possibly Jack). Tools where missing a deadline does not crash the system, but just reduces quality. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
