linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] Multimedia scheduling class, take 2

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Date:	Wed, 13 May 2009 09:36:23 +0300
From:	Jussi Laako <jussi@...arnerd.net>
To:	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>
CC:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	James Courtier-Dutton <James@...erbug.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	d.faggioli@...up.it
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Multimedia scheduling class, take 2

Chris Friesen wrote:
> Really?  You can call pthread_attr_setschedpolicy() with a policy of
> SCHED_MM?  On my copy of glibc 2.8 it explicitly checks for
> FIFO/RR/OTHER and anything else is rejected.

My copy of 2.9 has that fixed (original one is still broken), because
that's also broken for SCHED_IDLE and SCHED_BATCH which have been in the
kernel for a while already.

I'm not sure, but I think pthread_setschedparam() and
sched_setscheduler() didn't need fixing.


	- Jussi
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