On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 cd_smith@ou.edu wrote:
> Anyone thought about allowing soft RT (SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR) tasks with
> negative priorities? These would only be executed if no other tasks of
> any type are there. Giving a normal Linux task a niceness value won't do
> this, as the task will still get some CPU time.
>
So SCHED_IDLE then (only execute this if we would otherwise be executing
the idle task)? It's been talked about before, IIRC even implemented, it
just never got into the mainstream kernel.
Bryn
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