Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:15:27 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 14:03 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:43:22PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > The realtime LSM has been previously explained on this list. Its > > function is to allow selected nonroot users to run RT tasks. The most > > common application is low latency audio with JACK, http://jackit.sf.net. > > > > Several people have reported that 2.6.10 is the best kernel yet for > > audio latency, see > > http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2004-December/007341.html. If the realtime LSM were merged, then this would be the last step to making low latency audio work well with the stock kernel. > > > > We (the authors and the Linux audio community) would like to request its > > inclusion in the next -mm release, with the eventual goal of having it > > in mainline. > > > > This is identical to the last version Jack O'Quin posted (but didn't cc: > > Andrew, or make clear that we would like this added to -mm), so I > > preserved his Signed-Off-By. > > This is far too specialized. And option to the capability LSM to grant > capabilities to certain uids/gids sounds like the better choise - and > would also allow to get rid of the magic hugetlb uid horrors. those can go away anyway now that there is an rlimit to achieve the exact same thing.....
I can see the point of making an rlimit like thing instead for both the nice levels allowed and maybe the "can do rt" bit
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