Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.74-mm1 | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:59:57 +0200 |
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On Thursday 10 July 2003 00:24, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > We've got something better than we've had before, even though it doesn't > > go as far as making true realtime processing available to normal users. > > Indeed. But maybe true (bounded CPU) realtime, reliable, would more > accurately reflect what the user actually wants for some apps?
No doubt about it. Other OSes have it:
http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/cgi-bin/man/sgi_irix?realtime+5
Hopefully in the next cycle, we will too.
I like your idea of allowing normal users to set SCHED_RR, but automatically placing some bound on cpu usage. It's guaranteed not to break any existing programs.
Regards,
Daniel
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