Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261223AbVA1JMJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jan 2005 04:12:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261224AbVA1JMJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jan 2005 04:12:09 -0500 Received: from mx2.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:17065 "EHLO mx2.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261223AbVA1JMH (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jan 2005 04:12:07 -0500 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:11:43 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: "Jack O'Quin" Cc: Nick Piggin , 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, 2.6.11-rc2] sched: RLIMIT_RT_CPU_RATIO feature Message-ID: <20050128091143.GA6199@elte.hu> References: <20050124125814.GA31471@elte.hu> <20050125135613.GA18650@elte.hu> <87sm4opxto.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> <20050126070404.GA27280@elte.hu> <87fz0neshg.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> <1106782165.5158.15.camel@npiggin-nld.site> <20050128080802.GA2860@elte.hu> <871xc62bot.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> <20050128084049.GA5004@elte.hu> <87vf9i0vx3.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87vf9i0vx3.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 619 Lines: 17 * Jack O'Quin wrote: > > thus after a couple of years we'd end up with lots of desktop apps > > running as SCHED_FIFO, and latency would go down the drain again. > > I wonder how Mac OS X and Windows deal with this priority escalation > problem? Is it real or only theoretical? no idea. Anyone with MacOSX/Windows application writing experience? :-| Ingo - 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/