Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:03:33 GMT From: Nikos Vassiliadis<nvass@teledomenet.gr> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/110253: rtprio(1): remove processing starvation comment from BUGS section Message-ID: <200703130903.l2D93XdY013994@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200703130910.l2D9AEJ3066822@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 110253 >Category: docs >Synopsis: rtprio(1): remove processing starvation comment from BUGS section >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Mar 13 09:10:13 GMT 2007 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Nikos Vassiliadis >Release: 6.2-STABLE >Organization: None >Environment: FreeBSD wmail.teledomenet.gr 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Tue Mar 6 12:08:23 EET 2007 root@wmail.teledomenet.gr:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: This comment in no longer true, as far as I know. It's a bit scary and I think it prevents people from using these nice features. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: Patch attached with submission follows: --- /usr/src/usr.sbin/rtprio/rtprio.1 Mon Mar 20 13:45:45 2006 +++ /tmp/src/usr.sbin/rtprio/rtprio.1 Tue Mar 13 10:40:43 2007 @@ -184,9 +184,3 @@ the process may be stopped for pagein (see .Xr mprotect 2 , .Xr madvise 2 ) . -.Pp -Under -.Fx -system calls are currently never preempted, therefore non-realtime -processes can starve realtime processes, or idletime processes can -starve normal priority processes. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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