Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275469AbTHJFnf (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2003 01:43:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275471AbTHJFnf (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2003 01:43:35 -0400 Received: from dyn-ctb-210-9-243-231.webone.com.au ([210.9.243.231]:18182 "EHLO chimp.local.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275469AbTHJFnY (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2003 01:43:24 -0400 Message-ID: <3F35DB73.8090201@cyberone.com.au> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 15:43:15 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030618 Debian/1.3.1-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roger Larsson CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] SCHED_SOFTRR starve-free linux scheduling policy ... References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030809183021.0197ae00@pop.gmx.net> <200308100405.52858.roger.larsson@skelleftea.mail.telia.com> In-Reply-To: <200308100405.52858.roger.larsson@skelleftea.mail.telia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 544 Lines: 18 Roger Larsson wrote: >* SCHED_FIFO requests from non root should also be treated as SCHED_SOFTRR > > I hope computers don't one day become so fast that SCHED_SOFTRR is required for skipless mp3 decoding, but if they do, then I think SCHED_SOFTRR should drop its weird polymorphing semantics ;) - 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/