Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM | From | utz lehmann <> | Date | Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:17:42 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 20:33 -0800, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 07:50:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > So I still have the rt-lsm patch floating about, saying "merge me, merge > > me!". I'm not sure that the world would end were I to do so. > > > > Consider this a prod in the direction of those who were pushing > > alternatives ;) > > I think Chris Wright's last rlimit patch is more sensible and ready to > go. And I think I may have even convinced Ingo on this point before > the conversation died last time around. So here's that patch again, > updated to 2.6.11. Compiles cleanly. Chris, please add a signed-off-by. > > <snip> > > Add a pair of rlimits for allowing non-root tasks to raise nice and rt > priorities. Defaults to traditional behavior. Originally written by > Chris Wright.
The nice part is really useful for me. With it i can allow users to renice their previously niced jobs (eg. from 19 to 0). At the moment they need to call me and i do this as root.
If this rlimit approach is not the solution for the audio RT stuff, can the nice part merged anyway?
utz
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