Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:50:27 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [GIT RFC PULL rcu/urgent] Prevent Kconfig from asking pointless
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On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 08:01:22 -0700
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> > > Seem reasonable?
> > 
> > Does chrt override the kthread_prio at run time? If so, then great.
> > Otherwise, the sysadmin should still have a way to control their
> > priorities of kernel threads (with few exceptions like the migration
> > thread).
> 
> Yep, RCU sets the prios only at boot time, so if they are set differently
> at runtime, they should stay set differently.  Unless chrt refuses to
> work on kthreads or something. ;-)

Great! This all sounds reasonable to me :-)

-- Steve
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