linux-kernel - Re: Issue in PI boosting code in __sched

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Message-ID: <20150505232301.19f99734@grimm.local.home>
Date:	Tue, 5 May 2015 23:23:01 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Ronny Meeus <ronny.meeus@...il.com>
Cc:	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: Issue in PI boosting code in __sched_setscheduler

On Wed, 6 May 2015 05:14:18 +0200
Ronny Meeus <ronny.meeus@...il.com> wrote:

> Thanks for looking into this.
> 
> It looks to me that real-time priority threads are not used in many
> systems because we discovered already several issues, both in the
> kernel and glibc while we are using Linux only recently.
> Do you have a view on this?
> 

View on what?

Anyway, did you see the patch Thomas sent out?

Subject: [PATCH V2] sched: Handle priority boosted tasks proper in setscheduler()

It solves this current issue.

-- Steve
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