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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:25:08PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> The basic issue is that the current semantics of SCHED_FIFO seem make
> the deadlock/data corruption due to runaway RT thread issue difficult.
> The obvious solution is a new scheduling class equivalent to SCHED_FIFO
> but with a mechanism for the kernel to demote the offending thread to
> SCHED_OTHER in an emergency.

and this is getting really close to the original "counter proposal" to the
LSM module that was basically "lets make lower nice limit an rlimit, and
have -20 mean "basically FIFO" *if* the task behaves itself".

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