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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] New scheduler class
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To: Henri Roosen <henriroosen@domain.hid>
Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>

Henri Roosen wrote:
> Ok, I might give Jan's proposal a try and could be sufficient for us:a
> Xenomai thread with non-RT scheduling class (didn't know that was
> possible).
> 
> We just need the thread in the Xenomai domain for being able to access
> Xenomai resources, but want it to be scheduled together with the Linux
> nice levels. A near IDLE nice level should be ok. We just don't want
> that our Xenomai 'idle' thread with a while(1) would prevent Linux to
> run.

That will happen with SCHED_OTHER if while(1) occurs while running in
primary mode.

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					    Gilles.