linux-kernel - RE: Bug 71331 - mlock yields processor to lower priority process

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Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:37:33 +0000
From:	<jimmie.davis@...com.com>
To:	<hancockrwd@...il.com>, <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
CC:	<oneukum@...e.de>, <artem_fetishev@...m.com>,
	<peterz@...radead.org>, <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Bug 71331 - mlock yields processor to lower priority process

  

> Generally real-time applications should not be doing mlock calls during 
> their real-time execution for that reason. The required memory regions 
> should be locked during startup so that this kind of execution delay can 
> be avoided at runtime.

Total agreement on this.
 .

Regards,
Bud Davis




  

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