[linux-audio-user] Patch to choose scheduler at runtime

Florian Schmidt mista.tapas at gmx.net
Wed Jul 7 14:13:18 EDT 2004


On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:55:21 +0100
Joe Button <linux-audio-user at joebutton.co.uk> wrote:

> Thought people here might be interested in this story:
> 
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3366
> 
> It's about a patch that allows you to switch between CPU scheduling policies 
> through the /proc interface. eg:
> 
> echo sc > /proc/sys/kernel/cpusched/mode
> 
> should switch to Con Kolivas' staircase scheduler. Haven't tried it myself but 
> thought people might be interested.
> 
> Joe
> 

what i also find intereting is that it offers the user to control various Scheduler properties like minimum time slice, maximum time slice, etc.. or was that a different kernel trap story?

i wonder about the effects of different timeslice sizes for rt audio

flo


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