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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 10:18:43 +0200
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] SCHED_SOFTRR starve-free linux scheduling policy  
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At 05:56 PM 8/10/2003 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:


>Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
>>At 03:43 PM 8/10/2003 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>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 ;)
>>
>>
>>:)  My box is slow enough to handle them just fine, as long as I make 
>>sure that oinkers don't share the same queue with the light weight player.
>
>
>Just my (unsuccessful) attempt at humor!

(was successful here... made for wide grin:)


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