Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 17:15:37 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
cc: Remy Bohmer <linux@bohmer.net>, Armin Steinhoff <armin@steinhoff.de>,
        Johannes Bauer <hannes_bauer@aon.at>,
        Monica Puig-Pey <puigpeym@unican.es>,
        Rolando Martins <rolando.martins@gmail.com>,
        linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Changing Kernel thread priorities
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On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 13:02 +0200, Remy Bohmer wrote:
> > Well, I 100% agree that it must be under full userspace control to be
> > able to set the priorities. But, the kernel default assumption of
> > starting everything at 50 is wrong as well.
> > Imagine the following situation:
> > * Realtime application is running and has threads active in the range
> > of prios 20 - 90.
> > * Now bring up a network device, it immediately starts spamming the
> > system at prio 50 _before_ you have the chance to set it below 20 by
> > means of chrt.
> > * RT behaviour is gone!
> 
> Good point I guess, Thomas should we default to 1 for everything?

No objections.
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