From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752524AbXCMRqE (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:46:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752577AbXCMRqD (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:46:03 -0400 Received: from zcars04e.nortel.com ([47.129.242.56]:60737 "EHLO zcars04e.nortel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752524AbXCMRqB (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:46:01 -0400 Message-ID: <45F6E34E.9020308@nortel.com> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:45:50 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Revell CC: Ash Milsted , Con Kolivas , linux kernel mailing list , ck list Subject: Re: [ck] RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for mainline kernels References: <200703121058.11966.kernel@kolivas.org> <20070313153514.428dc3e1.thatistosayiseenem@gawab.com> <75b66ecd0703130853p4c7d029en2405caee4447d29e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <75b66ecd0703130853p4c7d029en2405caee4447d29e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Mar 2007 17:45:54.0372 (UTC) FILETIME=[72CAF840:01C76597] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lee Revell wrote: > Sounds like Wengophone is broken. It should be using RT threads for > time critical work, as JACK and Ardour2 are doing. If the app has root privileges to set RT policy, then it could also set deeply negative nice values as well. Doesn't reallly help the regular user with no privileges. Chris