docs/110253: rtprio(1): remove processing starvation comment from BUGS section

Nikos Vassiliadis nvass at teledomenet.gr
Tue Mar 13 09:10:14 UTC 2007


>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 at 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:
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