From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: run kthreadd with max priority SCHED_FIFO
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:39:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1198319970.5509.10.camel@homer.simson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1198317171.24423.47.camel@perihelion>
On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 04:52 -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> So, user tasks running with SCHED_FIFO should be able to lock a system?
> I guess I see both sides of this argument - yes, it's userspace at
> fault, but in other cases when userspace is at fault, we take action
> (OOM, segfault, others). Isn't this situation just another case where
> the kernel needs to avoid the evils of userland going awry?
FYI, Ingo queued the below.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/31/344
-Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-22 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-17 22:43 [PATCH] kthread: run kthreadd with max priority SCHED_FIFO Michal Schmidt
2007-12-17 23:00 ` Jon Masters
2007-12-22 9:30 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-22 9:52 ` Jon Masters
2007-12-22 10:11 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-22 10:18 ` Jon Masters
2007-12-22 10:39 ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2007-12-22 10:52 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-22 11:21 ` Jon Masters
2007-12-23 8:50 ` Mike Galbraith
2008-01-07 10:06 ` [PATCH] kthread: always create the kernel threads with normal priority Michal Schmidt
2008-01-07 10:25 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-07 11:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-07 17:29 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-07 17:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-08 9:54 ` Michal Schmidt
2008-01-07 13:18 ` Michal Schmidt
2008-01-08 16:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-07 11:22 ` Remy Bohmer
2008-01-07 13:10 ` Michal Schmidt
2008-01-07 15:53 ` Remy Bohmer
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