Re: [PATCH] MAX_USER_RT_PRIO and MAX_RT_PRIO are wrong!

[Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 03:23:02PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 14:10 -0500, Dean Nelson wrote:
> 
> > I just built and tested a kernel and xp/xpc/xpnet modules with your patch
> > applied. It ran fine. The priorities of the xpc kthreads were correct.
> > 
> > Looks good to me.
> 
> Dean, 
> 
> If you can do me a favor, the way you really want to test this is by
> changing MAX_USER_RT_PRIO to 99 and MAX_RT_PRIO to 
> (MAX_USER_RT_PRIO+1).  This will make sure that the patch is working.
> Your kernel thread should still run at priority 99. 
> 
> Check it with:  ps -eo pid,rtprio,comm
> 
> And grep for your thread name.

Just did as you asked and things seem fine. Ran on an SGI altix.
(The first process shown below shouldn't have a priority of 99,
just the others.)

cranberry5:~ # ps -eo pid,rtprio,comm | grep xpc
13325      - xpc_hb
13327     99 xpc08
13467     99 xpc06
13469     99 xpc06c1
13501     99 xpc06c1
13502     99 xpc06c1
cranberry5:~ #