Re: RT task scheduling

[Ingo Molnar]

* Bill Huey <billh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:37:53AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > do "global" decisions for what RT tasks to run on which CPU. To put even 
> > less overhead on the mainstream kernel, i plan to introduce a new 
> > SCHED_FIFO_GLOBAL scheduling policy to trigger this behavior. [it doesnt 
> > make much sense to extend SCHED_RR in that direction.]
> 
> You should consider for a moment to allow for the binding of a thread 
> to a CPU to determine the behavior of a SCHED_FIFO class task instead 
> of creating a new run category. [...]

That is already possible and has been possible for years.

	Ingo
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