Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262914AbVAKW3y (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:29:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262728AbVAKW2P (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:28:15 -0500 Received: from mail24.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.133.165]:11498 "EHLO mail24.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262915AbVAKW1h (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:27:37 -0500 Message-ID: <41E45288.5020608@kolivas.org> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:26:16 +1100 From: Con Kolivas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Wright Cc: Ingo Molnar , 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 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> <20050111141319.P10567@build.pdx.osdl.net> In-Reply-To: <20050111141319.P10567@build.pdx.osdl.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigE5782DABCBF1F772C4716737" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1833 Lines: 54 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigE5782DABCBF1F772C4716737 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chris Wright wrote: > * 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. They were nice -10. I changed them to nice -5 recently in -mm and that just got commited to -bk post 2.6.10 Cheers, Con --------------enigE5782DABCBF1F772C4716737 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB5FKIZUg7+tp6mRURAjeGAJ9c5reSeynnamnzC1PVmdKBAY5nLgCfdcaj ARWKmPsDDT+c19o6Px2BnOs= =yKUc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigE5782DABCBF1F772C4716737-- - 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/