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On Wednesday 10 May 2006 12:49, Lee Revell wrote:

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> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 08:25 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 02:15 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> > > I've CC'd Thomas Gleixner.  I beleive that the hrtimers code now uses

> > > priorities.  That is, when a timer is to go off, the hrtimer softirq

> > > inherits the priority of the task that created the timer.  Thomas,

> > > correct me if I'm wrong.  But I also believe this code is a work in

> > > progress, and the more feedback of what people want/need the better we

> > > can make the code do just that.

> > >

> > > Is the high res timers turned on?

> >

> >

http://www.linutronix.de/index.php?module=News&id=cntnt01&cntnt01action=...,

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> >

> > This is only true, when high resolution timers are enabled.

>

> Is there any solution for the !CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS case?  I for one

> can't use it because my hardware doesn't support it (no local APIC).

Thanks for forwarding the link, Lee. That's helpful information.
Thomas, does this dynamic priority support work when running softirq-timer/0

at SCHED_OTHER? I tried, and it seems to work here, I just want to make sure

it's valid to do so.
Wolfgang