Ingo Molnar wrote:

* K.R. Foley [off-list ref] wrote:

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Ingo Molnar wrote:

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i have released the v2.6.20-rt1 kernel, which can be downloaded from the 
usual place:

I have a couple of questions regarding priorities of the softirqs, IRQ 
handlers, etc.

With some exceptions, back in 2.6.18 and prior patches the IRQ threads 
were prioritized between 50 and 25 and the most of the softirqs were 
prioritized at 1? In newer patches it looks like they are all 
prioritized at 50?

I was just curious what went into making these choices? I am just 
trying to better understand these decisions.

The basically random order-of-request_irq() prioritization was causing 
problems (it worked for some but didnt work for others), so i got rid of 
trying to auto-guess some priority order. Also, now that we've got 
tools/scripts like set_kthread_prio and rtprio it seemed more consistent 
to just not attempt to prioritize interrupts and softirqs at all, but to 
keep them all 'in the middle' of the RT priority range.

	Ingo

Thanks.

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	kr