Re: [ck] RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for mainline kernels

Lee Revell
2007-03-13T20:02:27Z

On 3/13/07, Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com> wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > Sounds like Wengophone is broken. It should be using RT threads for
> > time critical work, as JACK and Ardour2 are doing.
>
> If the app has root privileges to set RT policy, then it could also set
> deeply negative nice values as well.
>
> Doesn't reallly help the regular user with no privileges.

Well this was supposed to be solved by RLIMIT_NICE and RLIMIT_RTPRIO
which went into mainline about a year ago but distros have been very
slow to pick up the new PAM, glibc and bash packages. We don't have a
clear picture yet of what defaults the distros will ship.

Lee