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	John Marshall <John.Marshall@riverwillow.com.au>
Subject: Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge devices
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> Very interesting data point.  I wonder if this accounts for some of the
> inconsistency in the reporting from others.  In any case, SCHED_ULE is
> still considered to be highly experimental.  Hopefully it will get some
> more attention in the near future to bring it closer to production
> quality.

   I'm not using SCHED_ULE on any of the machines that I'm seeing the
timeout problem with em and fxp devices. I suspect the problem has to do
with interrupt thread scheduling; maybe SCHED_ULE just somehow makes the
problem worse?

-DG

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