From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261453AbVACOEG (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:04:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261455AbVACOEG (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:04:06 -0500 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:62183 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261453AbVACOEB (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:04:01 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:03:59 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Lee Revell Cc: linux-kernel , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , "Jack O'Quin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM Message-ID: <20050103140359.GA19976@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Lee Revell , linux-kernel , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Jack O'Quin References: <1104374603.9732.32.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1104374603.9732.32.camel@krustophenia.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:43:22PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > The realtime LSM has been previously explained on this list. Its > function is to allow selected nonroot users to run RT tasks. The most > common application is low latency audio with JACK, http://jackit.sf.net. > > Several people have reported that 2.6.10 is the best kernel yet for > audio latency, see > http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2004-December/007341.html. If the realtime LSM were merged, then this would be the last step to making low latency audio work well with the stock kernel. > > We (the authors and the Linux audio community) would like to request its > inclusion in the next -mm release, with the eventual goal of having it > in mainline. > > This is identical to the last version Jack O'Quin posted (but didn't cc: > Andrew, or make clear that we would like this added to -mm), so I > preserved his Signed-Off-By. This is far too specialized. And option to the capability LSM to grant capabilities to certain uids/gids sounds like the better choise - and would also allow to get rid of the magic hugetlb uid horrors.