Re: [PATCH] sched: Add SCHED_BGND (background) scheduling policy

[Arjan van de Ven]

> 
> Of course, a comprehensive (as opposed to RT only) priority inheritance 
> mechanism would make the "safe/unsafe to background" problem go away and 
> make this patch very simple.  Any plans in that direction?

there is a very simple prio inheritance mechanism available already:
just treat "running in kernel mode" as a "go to nice +19" thing, and I
suspect things will suddenly be safe ;)


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