Re: low priority soft RT?

Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 15:56:46 +0200

On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 07:09:32AM +1000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Of course, a RT process hitting the
> FS is somewhat questionable, but in some cases is legitimate (i.e. you
> have two RT processes, the high priority one queues data to the low
> priority one which hits the FS), provided you know what you are doing.

Why is the task-which-accesses-disk a RT process instead of a SCHED_OTHER
process?

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
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