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Subject: Re: RT scheduler config, suggestions and questions
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 07:36 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > btw I can see "watchdog" being very useful to catch hard-RT tasks that exceed the deadline.
> > But's it gotta be per thread.
> 
> It is.
> 
> > Single setting per user is not enough. Unless a use has a single RT task.
> 
> ?

Ah, its starting to make sense, you want it configurable per thread, not
process wide. Yes, I see how that is useful, just no idea how to expose
that to user-space atm.