Re: scheduler starvation running irman with 2.5.64bk2

[Mike Galbraith]

At 09:50 PM 3/8/2003 -0500, [e-mail] wrote:
>irman triggers some odd behavior with 2.5.64bk2 on uniprocessor
>K6/2 475.  "ps aux" hasn't returned for a couple hours, though
>irman appears to be doing it's thing.  I haven't tried irman on smp.
>
>Time to run irman 3x.
>
>2.5.63                  4066 seconds
>2.5.63-mjb1             2993 seconds
>2.5.63-mm2-dline        2856 seconds
>2.5.64                  3473 seconds
>2.5.64bk2               ??

It _appears_ to be a valid test-case. I can reproduce this with 
2.5.64+combo and B2.  I can also influence it to behave.  (that doesn't 
mean that the scheduler changes are bust... could be that the test-case is 
doing something bad)

Q/indicator:  do you ever see ksoftirqd _wanting_ to run?  (set top SCHED_RR)

         -Mike