Re: 2.5.74-mm1

Daniel Phillips
2003-07-09T22:44:12Z

On Thursday 10 July 2003 00:24, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > We've got something better than we've had before, even though it doesn't
> > go as far as making true realtime processing available to normal users.
>
> Indeed. But maybe true (bounded CPU) realtime, reliable, would more
> accurately reflect what the user actually wants for some apps?

No doubt about it. Other OSes have it:

http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/cgi-bin/man/sgi_irix?realtime+5

Hopefully in the next cycle, we will too.

I like your idea of allowing normal users to set SCHED_RR, but automatically
placing some bound on cpu usage. It's guaranteed not to break any existing
programs.

Regards,

Daniel