Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:48:43AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Here's Chris' patch for reference:
> > 
> > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/6408569e13ed6e80
> 
> how does this patch solve the separation of 'negative nice values' and
> 'RT priority rlimits'? In one piece of code it handles the rlimit value
> as a 0-39 nice value, in another place it handles it as a limit for a
> 1-100 RT priority range. The two ranges overlap and have nothing to do
> with each other. [*]

Read more closely: there are two independent limits in the patch,
RLIMIT_NICE and RLIMIT_RTPRIO. This lets us grant elevated nice
without SCHED_FIFO.

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