Re: 2.6.17-rc2+ regression -- audio skipping

[Peter Williams]

Peter Williams wrote:
> Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 15:38 +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
> >
> > > In my schedulers I generalize background to "soft cpu rate caps" with 
> > > a cap of zero being the same as background.  I have patches to add 
> > > both soft and hard cpu rate caps to the standard scheduler but I'm 
> > > sitting on them until things settle down a bit.
> >
> > I look forward to seeing them.  Any chance of a preview?
>
> I'll post them as a "request for comment" tomorrow.  I'm still undecided 
> about the best user space interface for using them.  At the moment, I 
> have mechanisms to set them via /proc which is very handy for testing 
> but not necessarily the best interface for general use.  Other options 
> are via rlimits or a syscall.

There'll be a delay in this posting as I've discovered uses of MAX_PRIO 
(in 2.7.17-rc4-mm3) that would be broken by my current patches.  I'll 
fix that problem and hopefully post the patches in the near future.

Sorry
Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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