Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262479AbVAKWPa (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:15:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262549AbVAKWOH (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:14:07 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:18356 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262479AbVAKWNU (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:13:20 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:13:19 -0800 From: Chris Wright To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Chris Wright , Matt Mackall , Paul Davis , "Jack O'Quin" , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Lee Revell , arjanv@redhat.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM Message-ID: <20050111141319.P10567@build.pdx.osdl.net> References: <20050110212019.GG2995@waste.org> <200501111305.j0BD58U2000483@localhost.localdomain> <20050111191701.GT2940@waste.org> <20050111125008.K10567@build.pdx.osdl.net> <20050111205809.GB21308@elte.hu> <20050111131400.L10567@build.pdx.osdl.net> <20050111212719.GA23477@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20050111212719.GA23477@elte.hu>; from mingo@elte.hu on Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:27:19PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1045 Lines: 27 * Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote: > you are right, i forgot about kernel threads. If they are nice -10 on > Jack's system too then they are within striking range indeed, especially > since they are typically idle and if then they are active for short > bursts of time and get the maximum boost. Jack, could you renice these > to -5, to make sure they dont interfere? Yup, their bursty nature makes them seem a likely culprit. > btw., why are these at nice -10? workqueue.c sets nice value to -5 > normally. Heh, I was just wondering the same thing. BTW, grepping set_user_nice shows a few more possible culprits. One more reason that there may be value in promoting the audio app to rt scheduling. thanks, -chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net - 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/