Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262194AbVAYV6C (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:58:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262188AbVAYV5g (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:57:36 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:19351 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262187AbVAYV4C (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:56:02 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:55:08 -0800 From: Chris Wright To: Ingo Molnar Cc: "Jack O'Quin" , 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 , Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [patch, 2.6.11-rc2] sched: /proc/sys/kernel/rt_cpu_limit tunable Message-ID: <20050125135508.A24171@build.pdx.osdl.net> References: <20050120172506.GA20295@elte.hu> <87wtu6fho8.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> <20050122165458.GA14426@elte.hu> <87hdl940ph.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> <20050124085902.GA8059@elte.hu> <20050124125814.GA31471@elte.hu> <87k6q2umla.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> <20050125083724.GA4812@elte.hu> <87oefdfaxp.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> <20050125214900.GA9421@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: <20050125214900.GA9421@elte.hu>; from mingo@elte.hu on Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:49:00PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 895 Lines: 20 * Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote: > well, there's setrlimit, so you could add a jackd client callback that > instructs all clients to change their RT_CPU_RATIO rlimit. In theory we > could try to add a new rlimit syscall that changes another task's rlimit > (right now the syscalls only allow the changing of the rlimit of the > current task) - that would enable utilities to change the rlimit of all > tasks in the system, achieving the equivalent of a global sysctl. We've talked about smth. similar in another thread. I'm not opposed to the idea. 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/