Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262095AbVCHTU2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:20:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262083AbVCHTTc (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:19:32 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.191]:3311 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262085AbVCHTSR (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:18:17 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM From: utz lehmann To: Matt Mackall Cc: Andrew Morton , Paul Davis , joq@io.com, cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com, chrisw@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org, rlrevell@joe-job.com, arjanv@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, LKML In-Reply-To: <20050308043349.GG3120@waste.org> References: <20050112185258.GG2940@waste.org> <200501122116.j0CLGK3K022477@localhost.localdomain> <20050307195020.510a1ceb.akpm@osdl.org> <20050308043349.GG3120@waste.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:17:42 +0100 Message-Id: <1110309462.5834.4.camel@segv.aura.of.mankind> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:5a3828f1c4d839cf12e8a3b808f7ed34 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1360 Lines: 35 On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 20:33 -0800, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 07:50:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > So I still have the rt-lsm patch floating about, saying "merge me, merge > > me!". I'm not sure that the world would end were I to do so. > > > > Consider this a prod in the direction of those who were pushing > > alternatives ;) > > I think Chris Wright's last rlimit patch is more sensible and ready to > go. And I think I may have even convinced Ingo on this point before > the conversation died last time around. So here's that patch again, > updated to 2.6.11. Compiles cleanly. Chris, please add a signed-off-by. > > > > Add a pair of rlimits for allowing non-root tasks to raise nice and rt > priorities. Defaults to traditional behavior. Originally written by > Chris Wright. The nice part is really useful for me. With it i can allow users to renice their previously niced jobs (eg. from 19 to 0). At the moment they need to call me and i do this as root. If this rlimit approach is not the solution for the audio RT stuff, can the nice part merged anyway? utz - 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/