On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 15:09 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Daniel Walker wrote:
>
> >
> > On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 22:40 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> - tasklets have certain fairness limitations. (they are executed in
> >> softirq context and thus preempt everything, even if there is some
> >> potentially more important, high-priority task waiting to be
> >> executed.)
> >
> > Since -rt has been executing tasklets in process context for a long
> > time, I'm not sure this change would cause to many regressions. However,
> > it seems like implicit dependencies on "tasklets preempt everything"
> > might crop up. The other issue is if they don't "preempt
> > everything" (most of the time), what default priority do we give them
> > (all of the time)? It seems like Christoph's suggestion of converting
> > all the tasklets individually might be a better option, to deal with
> > specific pitfalls.
>
> that would be the safe way to do it, but it will take a lot of time and a
> lot of testing.
>
> it's probably better to try the big-bang change and only if you see
> problames go back and break things down.
For testing I'd agree, but not for a kernel that is suppose to be
stable.
> remember, these changes have been in use in -rt for a while. there's
> reason to believe that they aren't going to cause drastic problems.
Since I've been working with -rt (~2 years now I think) it's clear that
the number of testers of the patch isn't all that high compared to the
stable kernel . There are tons of drivers which get no coverage by -rt
patch users.
So the fact that something similar is in -rt is good, but it's not a
silver bullet ..
Daniel
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