Re: [PATCH][0/3] Scheduler policies for staircase

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:40:26 +1000,
Con Kolivas wrote:
> 
> These patches are not required to evaluate the staircase scheduler that is 
> currently in mm2, so akpm you dont need to add these. However the users of 
> the -ck patchset have been safely using the extra scheduling policies that 
> these patches support. So this is for people to know they already exist and 
> allow for wider testing.
> 
> The three patches that follow are:
> schedrange - this makes it easier to implement more policies in code
> 
> schedbatch - this implements idle scheduling for close-to-weightless task 
> scheduling which only schedules this class of task when nothing else wants 
> to run. 
> 
> schediso - this implements soft real time scheduling for non-privileged 
> tasks (isochronous scheduling).

I'd love to see SCHED_ISO is introduced.
It helps the normal audio streaming.

(but not sure about the video streaming - what happens when the stream
handling is CPU bound?)


Takashi