From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935521AbXHHAEq (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 20:04:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756708AbXHHAEg (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 20:04:36 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:50451 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755884AbXHHAEg (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 20:04:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 02:04:34 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: dragoran Cc: Jens Axboe , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: allow non root users to set io priority "idle" ? Message-ID: <20070808000434.GA7353@one.firstfloor.org> References: <46B6EDCB.6030806@gmail.com> <46B6F75D.1070808@gmail.com> <20070806103553.GA16133@one.firstfloor.org> <20070807204449.GA5245@kernel.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 12:18:12AM +0200, dragoran wrote: > so there is no real reason not to allow it for non root users? > removing the check is easy (3 lines) .... > or are there any other issues/problems? Jens was only talking about the seek issue I mentioned I believe; not about the PI problem. -Andi