Re: Offtopic: (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1)

Rik van Riel
2002-09-24T17:41:29Z

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Mark Veltzer wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 September 2002 17:50, Peter Svensson wrote:
> > Either you need to educate your users and trust them to
> > behave, or you need per user scheduling.
>
> It is obvious that in high end systems you MUST have per user scheduling
> since users will rob each other of cycles.... If Linux is to be a
> general purpose operation system it MUST have this feature

I just posted a patch for this and will upload the patch to
my home page:

Subject: [PATCH] per user scheduling for 2.4.19

My patch also allows you to switch the per user scheduling
on/off with /proc/sys/kernel/fairsched and has been tested
on both UP and SMP.

kind regards,

Rik
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