From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262104AbVG0OgO (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:36:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262261AbVG0Od6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:33:58 -0400 Received: from mx1.elte.hu ([157.181.1.137]:56709 "EHLO mx1.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262104AbVG0Odd (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:33:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:33:18 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Steven Rostedt Cc: LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable Message-ID: <20050727143318.GA26303@elte.hu> References: <1122473595.29823.60.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050727141754.GA25356@elte.hu> <1122474396.29823.65.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1122474396.29823.65.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Steven Rostedt wrote: > Perfectly understood. I've had two customers ask me to increase the > priorities for them, but those where custom kernels, and a config > option wasn't necessary. But since I've had customers asking, I > thought that this might be something that others want. But I deal > with a niche market, and what my customers want might not be what > everyone wants. (hence the RFC in the subject). > > So if there are others out there that would prefer to change their > priority ranges, speak now otherwise this patch will go by the waste > side. i'm not excluding that this will become necessary in the future. We should also add the safety check to sched.h - all i'm suggesting is to not make it a .config option just now, because that tends to be fiddled with. Ingo