Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270226AbTGMLgD (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 07:36:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270227AbTGMLgD (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 07:36:03 -0400 Received: from smtp-out1.iol.cz ([194.228.2.86]:14771 "EHLO smtp-out1.iol.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270226AbTGMLgB (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 07:36:01 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 13:50:33 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Davide Libenzi Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [patch] SCHED_SOFTRR linux scheduler policy ... Message-ID: <20030713115033.GA371@elf.ucw.cz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 748 Lines: 19 Hi! > I finally found a couple of hours for this and I also found a machine were > I can run 2.5, since luck abandoned myself about this. The small page > describe the obvious and contain the trivial patch and the latecy test app : > > http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/softrr.html What happens if evil user forks 60 processes, marks them all SCHED_SOFTRR, and tries to starve everyone else? Pavel -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] - 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/