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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: nigel@nrg.org
Cc: andrewm@uow.edu.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-audio-dev@ginette.musique.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:31:11 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14942.9759.730641.804611@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.10101111233241.5936-100000@cosmic.nrg.org>
In-Reply-To: <200101110519.VAA02784@pizda.ninka.net> <Pine.LNX.4.05.10101111233241.5936-100000@cosmic.nrg.org>


Nigel Gamble writes:
 > That's why MontaVista's kernel preemption patch uses sleeping mutex
 > locks instead of spinlocks for the long held locks.

Anyone who uses sleeping mutex locks is asking for trouble.  Priority
inversion is an issue I dearly hope we never have to deal with in the
Linux kernel, and sleeping SMP mutex locks lead to exactly this kind
of problem.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-11 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-11 11:30 Andrew Morton
2001-01-07  2:53 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-11  3:12   ` [linux-audio-dev] " Jay Ts
2001-01-11  3:22     ` Cort Dougan
2001-01-11 12:38       ` Alan Cox
2001-01-11  5:19     ` David S. Miller
2001-01-11 13:57       ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-11 20:55       ` Nigel Gamble
2001-01-12 13:30         ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-12 15:11           ` Tim Wright
2001-01-12 22:30             ` Nigel Gamble
2001-01-13  1:01             ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-15 19:46               ` Tim Wright
2001-01-12 22:46           ` Nigel Gamble
2001-01-12 23:08           ` george anzinger
2001-01-21  0:05           ` yodaiken
2001-01-22  0:54             ` Nigel Gamble
2001-01-22  1:49               ` Paul Barton-Davis
2001-01-22  2:21                 ` Nigel Gamble
2001-01-22  3:31                   ` J Sloan
2001-01-28 13:14                   ` yodaiken
2001-01-28 14:07                     ` Bill Huey
2001-01-28 14:26                       ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-29  5:02                       ` yodaiken
2001-01-28 14:19                     ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-28 16:17                       ` Joe deBlaquiere
2001-01-29 15:44                         ` yodaiken
2001-01-29 17:23                           ` Joe deBlaquiere
2001-01-29 17:38                             ` yodaiken
2001-01-29 18:03                               ` Joe deBlaquiere
2001-01-30 15:08                           ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-30 15:44                             ` Joe deBlaquiere
2001-01-30 16:29                               ` Paul Davis
2001-01-30 16:35                                 ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-31  7:55                               ` george anzinger
2001-01-30 16:19                             ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-01 12:40                               ` Pavel Machek
2001-02-01 22:33                                 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-02  4:17                                   ` Joe deBlaquiere
2001-01-30 20:51                             ` yodaiken
2001-01-30 21:00                               ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-29 22:08                         ` Pavel Machek
2001-01-29 22:31                         ` Roger Larsson
2001-01-29 23:46                           ` Joe deBlaquiere
2001-01-30 15:08                       ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-11 21:31       ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-01-15  5:27         ` george anzinger
2001-01-12 13:21       ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-14 11:35   ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-14 14:38     ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-15 10:59       ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-13  2:45 ` [linux-audio-dev] " Jay Ts
2001-01-21  0:10   ` yodaiken
2001-01-26  9:14     ` Pavel Machek
2001-01-13 18:11 ` video drivers hog pci bus ? [was:[linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0] Jörn Nettingsmeier

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