Re: [linux-audio-dev] Other real-time options

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 12:45 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 12:31, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> > Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@email-addr-hidden> writes:
> >
> > > Hmmm, I'm getting really confused, I thought that the realtime lsm was
> > > the one that was in 'mm (maybe none of them are?). Finally I found the
> > > followup article on lwn that mentioned this:
> > >
> > > http://lwn.net/Articles/121887/
> > >
> > > "...The end result is that the rlimit patch has come back out of -mm..."
> > >
> > > Maybe it was put back again afterwards? (this was reported on February
> > > 10). Hard to follow all that's happening...
> >
> > Difficult and frustrating.
> >
> > The kernel developers have decided not to merge the realtime-lsm,
> > after all.
>
> Sigh... again? :-[ :-{ :-<
>
> > Instead, they propose an rlimits extension for granting
> > per-user realtime scheduling privileges. This does (barely) meet our
> > minimum needs.
>
> I have not followed the details, I presume this could be per-group,
> right? What are the details on how use will be controlled, if you care
> to comment (PAM?)? You would not have a thread url by chance?

>From the patch in my last mail:

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.1/1921.html

Lee
Received on Sat Apr 9 00:15:14 2005