Paul Davis wrote:
>>>Paul.  Everyone agrees with you.  I think.  We just need to work out
>>>the best way of doing it.
>>>
>>>Would I be right in suspecting that we know what to do, but nobody has
>>>stepped up to write the code?  It's kinda looking like that?
>>
>>I thought I made it clear i had already volunteered. I was after a 
>>response to my proposal for how to do it.
> 
> 
> I think your proposal is a good (maybe even excellent) one, but it
> somewhat sidesteps the issue (which may be the best thing to
> do). Rather than answering the question "how best to allow regular
> users access to SCHED_FIFO", it says "lets offer regular users
> SCHED_ISO which is essentially identical to SCHED_FIFO unless tasks
> running SCHED_ISO use too much cpu time".
> 
> its a fine answer, but its the answer to a slightly different
> question. if anyone (maybe us audio freaks, maybe someone else) comes
> up with a reason to want "The Real SCHED_FIFO", the original question
> will have gone unanswered.

Ah then  you missed something. You can set the max cpu of SCHED_ISO to 
100% and then you have it.

Cheers,
Con