Re: low priority soft RT?
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Sat, 31 Jul 1999 07:05:05 +1000
yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu writes:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 02:42:15PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu wrote:
> > > > What's wrong with simply promoting the SCHED_IDLE task to normal
> > > > priority while it's in the kernel?
> > >
> > > You could just fix "goodness" to do a different calculation depending
> > > on the process state.
> >
> > Yes, that's exactly what I had in mind. It's so obvious, I'm surprised it
> > hasn't come up before.
>
> I think this is what Richard Gooch had in mind, but I was too dense
> to figure it out.
I thought you didn't like this because of the added complexity?
In any case, I like the ptrace-based approach that Artur Skawina came
up with. I haven't read the patch yet, but the idea looks good.
Regards,
Richard....
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