From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261884AbVANDZF (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:25:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261885AbVANDWC (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:22:02 -0500 Received: from mail13.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.194]:15314 "EHLO mail13.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261896AbVANDTY (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:19:24 -0500 Message-ID: <41E739F4.1030902@kolivas.org> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:18:12 +1100 From: Con Kolivas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton Cc: Paul Davis , nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, lkml@s2y4n2c.de, rlrevell@joe-job.com, arjanv@redhat.com, joq@io.com, chrisw@osdl.org, mpm@selenic.com, hch@infradead.org, mingo@elte.hu, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM References: <1105669451.5402.38.camel@npiggin-nld.site> <200501140240.j0E2esKG026962@localhost.localdomain> <20050113191237.25b3962a.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050113191237.25b3962a.akpm@osdl.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig3E3CE20CB674F3352EB7756C" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig3E3CE20CB674F3352EB7756C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andrew Morton wrote: > Paul Davis wrote: > >>>SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR are definitely privileged operations and you >> >>this is the crux of what this whole debate is about. for all of you >>people who think about linux on multi-user systems with network >>connectivity, running servers and so forth, this is clearly a given. >> >>but there is large and growing body of machines that run linux where >>the sole human user of the machine has a strong and overwhelming >>desire to have tasks run with the characteristics offered by >>SCHED_FIFO and/or SCHED_RR. are they still "privileged" operations on >>this class of linux system? what about linux installed on an embedded >>system, with a small LCD screen and the sole purpose of running audio >>apps live? are they still privileged then? >> > > > 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. Cheers, Con --------------enig3E3CE20CB674F3352EB7756C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB5zn0ZUg7+tp6mRURAvFEAJ4/s21AFtn7Iv20a88O6BbOnVJkWwCfRvrf 6+q0uTXHgfWuO2+v/f9BiYk= =6hD2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig3E3CE20CB674F3352EB7756C--