From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: Changing Kernel thread priorities Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 17:15:37 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <17185480.5304.1307435255996.JavaMail.root@WARSBL214.highway.telekom.at> <4DEDF1F2.2080204@steinhoff.de> <1307439469.2322.235.camel@twins> <1307456080.2322.264.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Remy Bohmer , Armin Steinhoff , Johannes Bauer , Monica Puig-Pey , Rolando Martins , linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Peter Zijlstra Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1307456080.2322.264.camel@twins> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-rt-users.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 13:02 +0200, Remy Bohmer wrote: > > Well, I 100% agree that it must be under full userspace control to be > > able to set the priorities. But, the kernel default assumption of > > starting everything at 50 is wrong as well. > > Imagine the following situation: > > * Realtime application is running and has threads active in the range > > of prios 20 - 90. > > * Now bring up a network device, it immediately starts spamming the > > system at prio 50 _before_ you have the chance to set it below 20 by > > means of chrt. > > * RT behaviour is gone! > > Good point I guess, Thomas should we default to 1 for everything? No objections.