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From: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] [RFC] shadow threads with prio 0 / SCHED_NORMAL
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is an experimental hack to open the non-rt priority levels of Linux
> to Xenomai shadow threads, i.e. allow shadows to be scheduled under
> SCHED_NORMAL when in secondary mode. The scenario are typical borderline
> threads between RT and non-RT: they share a critical code path with RT
> threads, maybe mutex protected, but they are mostly time-sharing threads
> which do not need SCHED_FIFO for this.

Merged the nucleus and native API changes, thanks. The POSIX skin still 
needs to be updated to use those new timesharing Xenomai-enabled threads 
though.

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Philippe.