Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:38:00 +1100 | | From | Con Kolivas <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM |
Paul Davis wrote:
>>>Paul. Everyone agrees with you. I think. We just need to work out
>>>the best way of doing it.
>>>
>>>Would I be right in suspecting that we know what to do, but nobody has
>>>stepped up to write the code? It's kinda looking like that?
>>
>>I thought I made it clear i had already volunteered. I was after a
>>response to my proposal for how to do it.
>
>
> I think your proposal is a good (maybe even excellent) one, but it
> somewhat sidesteps the issue (which may be the best thing to
> do). Rather than answering the question "how best to allow regular
> users access to SCHED_FIFO", it says "lets offer regular users
> SCHED_ISO which is essentially identical to SCHED_FIFO unless tasks
> running SCHED_ISO use too much cpu time".
>
> its a fine answer, but its the answer to a slightly different
> question. if anyone (maybe us audio freaks, maybe someone else) comes
> up with a reason to want "The Real SCHED_FIFO", the original question
> will have gone unanswered.
Ah then you missed something. You can set the max cpu of SCHED_ISO to
100% and then you have it.
Cheers,
Con
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