Messages in this thread | | | From | (Philippe Strauss) | Subject | Re: realtime idea | Date | Sun, 27 Oct 1996 19:25:52 +0100 (MET) |
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Egor Egorov wrote: > > I just read some VMS documentation, and I had one pretty idea. Why not to > get some real-time code into linux kernel ? 1st, the do-not-swap option for > process start. For example: > > [user@place ~]> noswap /usr/local/bin/superprog > > And this process never will be swapped. > > 2nd, enter some code in sched.c to give processor to one process every time > it needs it (oh, my english). For example: > > [user@place ~]> startprior /usr/local/bin/superprog > > I mean, this process will receive processor time every time it needs it.:) > This can be pretty thing to have, because sometimes we need to run smth, > which has to be run softly, wtihout any swap or slowdown. > > What do you think ? > > PS: "[user@place ~]> noswap startprior /usr/games/sdoom" ;-)) >
Realy neat idea, but you are not the first to think about it :) If you do a ftp on my linux box (sicel-home-1-4.urbanet.ch), you'll find a file called posix4.gz. It's a (overlong) post from Markus Kuhn about posix 1b extensions planned for linux.
-- Philippe Strauss, CH-1092 Belmont
Email: <philippe.strauss@urbanet.ch> Homepage: http://sicel-home-1-4.urbanet.ch
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