Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:58:57 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Real Time scheduler? |
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On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Shawn Leas wrote: > On Sun, 7 Feb 1999 david@sparks.net wrote: > > > Are there any patches available to incorporate a poor-mans real time > > function into the scheduler. FreeBSD's "rtprio" is what I'm thinking of. > > Basically it runs all "real time" processes in time shared fashion before > > running any "non real time" processes. > > > > Thanks in advance:) > > Didn't Rik Van Riel have something like that?
I am (or rather, will be once 2.2 stabilizes) working on the exact opposite: SCHED_IDLE processes which only run when the system's got nothing else to do.
As for realtime, the Linux kernel has had poor-man's RT support for ages (3 or 4 years, IIRC)...
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