Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750726AbWEWFWn (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 01:22:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751270AbWEWFWn (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 01:22:43 -0400 Received: from omta01ps.mx.bigpond.com ([144.140.82.153]:37454 "EHLO omta01ps.mx.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750726AbWEWFWm (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 01:22:42 -0400 Message-ID: <44729C1F.1060008@bigpond.net.au> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 15:22:39 +1000 From: Peter Williams User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Williams CC: Mike Galbraith , Con Kolivas , Rene Herman , Lee Revell , Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: 2.6.17-rc2+ regression -- audio skipping References: <4470CC8F.9030706@keyaccess.nl> <200605221033.49153.kernel@kolivas.org> <1148264043.7643.15.camel@homer> <200605221243.54100.kernel@kolivas.org> <1148267426.21765.15.camel@homer> <4471305F.40105@bigpond.net.au> <1148273580.9914.3.camel@homer> <44714E4F.8000801@bigpond.net.au> <1148277658.10520.9.camel@homer> <44715B5F.6060205@bigpond.net.au> In-Reply-To: <44715B5F.6060205@bigpond.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at omta01ps.mx.bigpond.com from [147.10.133.38] using ID pwil3058@bigpond.net.au at Tue, 23 May 2006 05:22:40 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1411 Lines: 34 Peter Williams wrote: > Mike Galbraith wrote: >> On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 15:38 +1000, Peter Williams wrote: >> >>> In my schedulers I generalize background to "soft cpu rate caps" with >>> a cap of zero being the same as background. I have patches to add >>> both soft and hard cpu rate caps to the standard scheduler but I'm >>> sitting on them until things settle down a bit. >> >> I look forward to seeing them. Any chance of a preview? >> > > I'll post them as a "request for comment" tomorrow. I'm still undecided > about the best user space interface for using them. At the moment, I > have mechanisms to set them via /proc which is very handy for testing > but not necessarily the best interface for general use. Other options > are via rlimits or a syscall. There'll be a delay in this posting as I've discovered uses of MAX_PRIO (in 2.7.17-rc4-mm3) that would be broken by my current patches. I'll fix that problem and hopefully post the patches in the near future. Sorry Peter -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious." -- Ambrose Bierce - 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/