Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

Ingo Molnar
2005-01-15T13:50:07Z

* Jack O'Quin <joq@io.com> wrote:

> OK, I reran with just 5 processes reniced from -10 to -5. On my
> system they were: events, khelper, kblockd, aio and reiserfs. In
> addition, I reniced loop0 from -20 to -5.

> One major problem: this `nice --20' hack affects every thread, not
> just the critical realtime ones. That's not what we want. Audio
> applications make very conscious choices which threads run with high
> priority and which do not.

how much did this problem affect your test? Could the source of the 500
msec delays be the non-highprio components of the test that somehow
became nice --20?

Ingo