Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266168AbTGIWCZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:02:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268597AbTGIWCZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:02:25 -0400 Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.43]:9407 "EHLO mail-in-03.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266168AbTGIWCN (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:02:13 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips To: Jamie Lokier , Davide Libenzi Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm1 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:17:44 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 Cc: Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management List References: <20030703023714.55d13934.akpm@osdl.org> <20030707193628.GA10836@mail.jlokier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030707193628.GA10836@mail.jlokier.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307082027.13857.phillips@arcor.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 970 Lines: 28 On Monday 07 July 2003 21:36, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Davide Libenzi wrote: > > The *application* has to hint the scheduler, not the user. > > Agreed. > > (I think the user/PAM idea came up for the same sort of reason that > only console users are able to open /dev/cdrom: asking for extra > resource (in this case low latency is a resource) might be something > you'd restrict to console users. I frequently run Zinf over ssh, to a machine that's connected to speakers. > But that is a very separate question from how do we get low latency to work > at all!) We've got something better than we've had before, even though it doesn't go as far as making true realtime processing available to normal users. Regards, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/