Priority inversion when using MTD

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:50 +0530, Sekhar Nori wrote:
> I have a high priority SCHED_FIFO task which runs out of a squashfs file system.
> When this process needs to fetch a page from the flash (due to demand paging),
> it is sometimes made to wait for another low priority SCHED_NORMAL
> task which is doing an erase on some other mtd partition.
 ...
> Is there any way to avoid this scenario? Any help/pointers would be appreciated.

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