Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:03:59 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM |
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On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:43:22PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > The realtime LSM has been previously explained on this list. Its > function is to allow selected nonroot users to run RT tasks. The most > common application is low latency audio with JACK, http://jackit.sf.net. > > Several people have reported that 2.6.10 is the best kernel yet for > audio latency, see > http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2004-December/007341.html. If the realtime LSM were merged, then this would be the last step to making low latency audio work well with the stock kernel. > > We (the authors and the Linux audio community) would like to request its > inclusion in the next -mm release, with the eventual goal of having it > in mainline. > > This is identical to the last version Jack O'Quin posted (but didn't cc: > Andrew, or make clear that we would like this added to -mm), so I > preserved his Signed-Off-By.
This is far too specialized. And option to the capability LSM to grant capabilities to certain uids/gids sounds like the better choise - and would also allow to get rid of the magic hugetlb uid horrors.
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