Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261185AbVAWCGu (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:06:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261187AbVAWCGu (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:06:50 -0500 Received: from smtp205.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.129.95]:36222 "HELO smtp205.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261185AbVAWCGo (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:06:44 -0500 Message-ID: <41F306B0.7050306@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 13:06:40 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Debian/1.7.5-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jack O'Quin" CC: Ingo Molnar , Paul Davis , Con Kolivas , linux , rlrevell@joe-job.com, CK Kernel , utz , Andrew Morton , alexn@dsv.su.se, Rui Nuno Capela , Chris Wright , Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [PATCH]sched: Isochronous class v2 for unprivileged soft rt scheduling References: <200501201542.j0KFgOwo019109@localhost.localdomain> <87y8eo9hed.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> <20050120172506.GA20295@elte.hu> <87wtu6fho8.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> <20050122165458.GA14426@elte.hu> <87hdl940ph.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> In-Reply-To: <87hdl940ph.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> 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: 861 Lines: 19 Jack O'Quin wrote: > Chris Wright and Arjan van de Ven have outlined a proposal to address > the privilege issue using rlimits. This is still the only workable > alternative to the realtime LSM on the table. If the decision were up > to me, I would choose the simplicity and better security of the LSM. > But their approach is adequate, if implemented in a timely fashion. I > would like to see some progress on this in addition to the scheduler > work. People still need SCHED_FIFO for some applications. > I think this is a pretty sane and minimally intrusive (for the kernel) way to support what you want. - 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/