Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:40:14 -0500 |
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[added Paul to cc:]
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 15:15 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 14:03 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > > 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. > those can go away anyway now that there is an rlimit to achieve the > exact same thing..... > > I can see the point of making an rlimit like thing instead for both the > nice levels allowed and maybe the "can do rt" bit >
How about a "max RT prio" rlimit, that defaults to -1 (can't do RT). Set it to 90 or something for audio users so you can still run a higher prio watchdog thread.
Lee
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