Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:42:01 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/6] sched: disabled rt-bandwidth by default |
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On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Mark Hounschell wrote: > > More and more are wanting and now finding the Linux kernel to be more > RT capable. I seem to remember way back you saying it was one thing you didn't > really care much about one way or the other. Thats OK. But, you _are_ the man.
The thing is, the reason I dislike RT is that so many people have so different understanding of what RT means.
Quite frankly, I think that the people who are complaining (like you) think that RT means "hard realtime". You think about literally specialized devices.
A lot of _other_ people think that RT means "good audio latency", where it really is a lot softer.
And neither camp seems to ever admit that they are just a small camp, and that the other camp exists or is even valid.
And I'm not really interested. Quite frankly, I suspect the "we want to run something like pulseaudio with RT priorities" camp is the more common one, and in that context I understand limiting SCHED_FIFO sounds perfectly understandable.
As to your
> "just to protect a few _supposedly_ bad programmers???"
quite frankly, most programmers aren't "supposedly bad". And if you think that the hard-RT "real man" programmers aren't bad, I really have nothing to say.
Linus
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