Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:12:37 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM
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Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
>
> >SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR are definitely privileged operations and you
> 
> this is the crux of what this whole debate is about. for all of you
> people who think about linux on multi-user systems with network
> connectivity, running servers and so forth, this is clearly a given.
> 
> but there is large and growing body of machines that run linux where
> the sole human user of the machine has a strong and overwhelming
> desire to have tasks run with the characteristics offered by
> SCHED_FIFO and/or SCHED_RR. are they still "privileged" operations on
> this class of linux system? what about linux installed on an embedded
> system, with a small LCD screen and the sole purpose of running audio
> apps live? are they still privileged then?
> 

Paul.  Everyone agrees with you.  I think.  We just need to work out
the best way of doing it.

Would I be right in suspecting that we know what to do, but nobody has
stepped up to write the code?  It's kinda looking like that?
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