Re: [PATCH] sched: Add SCHED_BGND (background) scheduling policy

Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-05T08:15:48Z

>
> Of course, a comprehensive (as opposed to RT only) priority inheritance
> mechanism would make the "safe/unsafe to background" problem go away and
> make this patch very simple. Any plans in that direction?

there is a very simple prio inheritance mechanism available already:
just treat "running in kernel mode" as a "go to nice +19" thing, and I
suspect things will suddenly be safe ;)