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What it's good for

Posted Oct 14, 2009 16:47 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: What it's good for by clugstj
Parent article: Deadline scheduling for Linux

Tweaking the priority is OK if the audio application is the only thing you care about. But priorities don't eliminate interference between applications, and they can be hard to set up correctly in more complex situations.

A bit more information can be found in this posting on the Ericsson site.


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What it's good for

Posted Oct 14, 2009 18:47 UTC (Wed) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link]

OK, I've read the Ericsson posting. The example there is dead easy to do with priority-based scheduling, the 20ms tasks are done at a higher priority than the rest of the software.

The author doesn't explain at all why he feels the deadline scheduler is a better fit - he just says that it is.

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