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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch, 2.6.11-rc2] sched: RLIMIT_RT_CPU_RATIO feature
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* Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:

> >having this API on 2.4 kernels. But it would have one big advantage: it
> >would be evidently and trivially RT-safe :-)
> 
> no small advantage.
> 
> it has another big advantage from the user space perspective: no other
> information is required apart from <tid>. no state needs to be
> maintained by the system that uses this. thats a huge win over the
> baroque collection of FIFOs (or futexes) that we have to look after
> now.

ok, i'll whip up something after 2.6.11.

	Ingo