Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] blktrace: Fix potentail deadlock between delete & sysfs ops | From | Waiman Long <> | Date | Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:26:53 -0400 |
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On 08/16/2017 03:14 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:07:25 -0400 > Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> wrote: > > >> I am thinking about maybe letting a RT task to sleep a tiny amount of >> time instead of calling schedule(). Hopefully, that will allow a >> lower-priority task to make forward progress. > That is actually one of the ugly hacks we have in the PREEMPT_RT patch > (and one of the things we need to fix before getting it to mainline). > > A simple msleep(1). > > -- Steve
I am planning to use usleep_range(). That will allow a short sleep in the us range instead of ms. The documentation suggest that for a 10us-20ms sleep.
Cheers, Longman
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