> system then Linux knows best and will be allowed to schedule the
> interruptions as it sees fit. Yet I am not about rewriting the Linux
> scheduler I am on about scheduling my threads as I see fit
You dont have enough information. Suppose you have 4 threads one per CPU
(locked to the cpu) and one of them takes a lock. Just then a hard real time
video process is started and sits on that cpu at 100% load. Your entire
thread suite comes to a halt.
When that occurs with the kernel doing threads the threads will end up bouncing
a little but across the 3 remaining cpus and still running
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