22 Oct
2009
22 Oct
'09
2:12 p.m.
[paul, i assume this was meant for the list?]
Paul Davis wrote:
2009/10/22 Jörn Nettingsmeier
<nettings(a)folkwang-hochschule.de>de>:
yeah, that's not exactly a touch of genius, but con's user base are,
well, users. making stuff out of the box is how he attracts testers.
in the long run, this should be a limits.conf thing, but in his position
, "wait for your distro to make this work" is a non-starter.
if bfs ever makes it into mainline, this behaviour will surely be shot
down. but the rest sounds interesting. i wonder how the new deadline
scheduler will compare.
hi everyone!
this:
A feature of BFS is that it detects when an
application tries to obtain a
realtime policy (SCHED_RR or SCHED_FIFO) and the caller does not have the
appropriate privileges to use those policies. When it detects this, it will
give the task SCHED_ISO policy instead. Thus it is transparent to the user.
Because some applications constantly set their policy as well as their nice
level, there is potential for them to undo the override specified by the user
on the command line of setting the policy to SCHED_ISO. To counter this, once
a task has been set to SCHED_ISO policy, it needs superuser privileges to set
it back to SCHED_NORMAL.
doesn't sound like linux or linus style of policy to me. i'll be
interested to see what happens.