Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755027AbYH1SxW (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:53:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752818AbYH1SxI (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:53:08 -0400 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.122]:58806 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752296AbYH1SxI (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:53:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:53:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@gandalf.stny.rr.com To: Linus Torvalds cc: Mark Hounschell , Nick Piggin , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , LKML , Stefani Seibold , Dario Faggioli , Max Krasnyansky , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] sched: disabled rt-bandwidth by default In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20080819103301.787700742@chello.nl> <200808290036.35817.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <200808290134.35093.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <48B6EB6F.2050802@compro.net> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 911 Lines: 25 On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > And I'm not really interested. Quite frankly, I suspect the "we want to > run something like pulseaudio with RT priorities" camp is the more common > one, and in that context I understand limiting SCHED_FIFO sounds perfectly > understandable. The fact that it actually limits a SCHED_FIFO task group, over a single task thread does bother me a little. But that said, I and others have made our complaints known, and will forever be documented in the halls of the Internet abyss. Thus, the verdict has been laid. Seems the default shall be something other than infinite. I will now remain silent. -- Steve -- 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/