[LAD] BFS and lennart's realtimekit idea...

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

J?rn Nettingsmeier:
>
> this looks like it could provide a simple way of granting fixed-deadline
> tasks appropriate cpu time without effectively handing the machine over.
> i was quite skeptical of lennart's idea of a userspace daemon to do the
> job reliably, but the scheduler should have pretty good leverage on
> rogue tasks :)
>


Why do you need a special scheduling mode? If you run a watchdog in the
background, you shouldn't handle the machine over.

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"das_watchdog" should be a properly made watchdog. It has saved
me numerous times, and works gently by temporarily turning off
realtime priority for all processes if something happens. 
http://archive.notam02.no/arkiv/src/