From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-2.6.13-rt14] Priority inversion bug
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:27:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050920142753.GA6132@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509201013040.5489@localhost.localdomain>
* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > thanks - added it to my tree. I'm wondering why it never showed up in
> > practice?
>
> How do we know if it hasn't? It wouldn't bug, you may just have a
> longer latency on the higher priority process than what should be. It
> did happen on my kernel, and the way I found that it did, was that I
> had a test in the passing of ownership to make sure that the one that
> got the lock is indeed the highest priority process. Without this
> check, we probably would never know.
'showed up' as in 'clearly incorrect scheduling shown in latency trace'.
It's probably the complex locking scenario that never made it trigger in
the simpler tests that e.g. rtc_wakeup or other latency testers do.
Ingo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-20 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-19 20:38 Steven Rostedt
2005-09-20 13:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-09-20 14:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-09-20 14:27 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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