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DateSat, 8 Apr 2006 09:25:30 +0200
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: RT task scheduling
* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> * Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org> wrote:
> 
> > I'm quite aware of what you're saying as well as a much of the 
> > contents of the -rt patch. Please don't assume that I'm not aware of 
> > this. The -rt patch doesn't do SWSRPS, [...]
> 
> to the contrary, the "RT overload" code in the -rt tree does strict, 
> system-wide RT priority scheduling. That's the whole point of it.

so after this "clarification of terminology" i hope you are in picture 
now, so could you please explain to me what you meant by:

> > You should consider for a moment to allow for the binding of a 
> > thread to a CPU to determine the behavior of a SCHED_FIFO class task 
> > instead of creating a new run category. [...]

to me it still makes no sense, and much of the followups were based on 
this. Or were you simply confused about what the scheduling code in -rt 
does precisely? Did that get clarified now?

	Ingo
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