Re: Scheduler policies for staircase

Con Kolivas
2004-08-04T11:12:27Z

Takashi Iwai writes:

> At Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:40:26 +1000,
> Con Kolivas wrote:
>> schediso - this implements soft real time scheduling for non-privileged
>> tasks (isochronous scheduling).
>
> I'd love to see SCHED_ISO is introduced.
> It helps the normal audio streaming.
>
> (but not sure about the video streaming - what happens when the stream
> handling is CPU bound?)

I use "streamer" in sched iso mode, and do the video encoding in a separate
application (mencoder) through a pipe. So it's a simple threading issue
where the capture thread is run in sched iso, and the cpu bound encoding
sched normal.

Cheers,
Con