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Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 17:19:15 -0700
From: Victor Yodaiken <yodaiken@fsmlabs.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Scheduler issue 1, RT tasks ...
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:36:07PM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > My understanding of the POSIX standard is the the highest priority
> > task(s) are to get the cpu(s) using the standard calls.  If you want to
> > deviate from this I think the standard allows extensions, but they IMHO
> > should be requested, not the default, so I would turn your flag around
> > to force LOCAL, not GLOBAL.
> 
> So, you're basically saying that for a better standard compliancy it's
> better to have global preemption policy by default. And having users to
> request rt tasks localization explicitly. It's fine for me.

Can you please cite the passaaages in the standrd you have in mind?

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> - Davide
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