[linux-audio-user] LKML: Time to remove LSM (was Re: [RESEND][RFC][PATCH 2/7] implementation of LSM hooks)

[Mark Knecht]

On 4/17/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 23:10 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> > > This thread is happening on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Since
> > > I'm not a programmer I don't understand the full ramifications. Can
> > > someone here tell me would this render the realtime-lsm module
> > > unusable and if so what would I have to do to get realtime operation
> > > without realtime-lsm?
> >
> > this would be horrible because my machine doesn't boot a patched kernel.
> >
> > Didn't test the recent vanilla kernels, though. I heard these are very
> > audio friendly without furtzer patching?
>
> You are confusing the -rt patch which improves the kernel's realtime
> performance with the realtime LSM which provides access to realtime
> scheduling to non-root users.
>
> The realtime LSM is really no longer needed as PAM or set_rtlimits
> solves the problem without requiring a kernel patch

Lee,
   I know nothing about set_rtlimits and wouldn't know how to use it.

   Where can I find a good walk through on doing that instead of using
realtime-lsm like I am today?

Thanks,
Mark