From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Phillips Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm1 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:17:44 +0200 References: <20030703023714.55d13934.akpm@osdl.org> <20030707193628.GA10836@mail.jlokier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030707193628.GA10836@mail.jlokier.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307082027.13857.phillips@arcor.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jamie Lokier , Davide Libenzi Cc: Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management List List-ID: On Monday 07 July 2003 21:36, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Davide Libenzi wrote: > > The *application* has to hint the scheduler, not the user. > > Agreed. > > (I think the user/PAM idea came up for the same sort of reason that > only console users are able to open /dev/cdrom: asking for extra > resource (in this case low latency is a resource) might be something > you'd restrict to console users. I frequently run Zinf over ssh, to a machine that's connected to speakers. > But that is a very separate question from how do we get low latency to work > at all!) We've got something better than we've had before, even though it doesn't go as far as making true realtime processing available to normal users. Regards, Daniel -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org