Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:16:15 -0400 | From | Mark Hounschell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/6] sched: disabled rt-bandwidth by default |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Steven Rostedt wrote: >> I've always thought that the policy settings belong in the distro, and the >> kernel should never enforce a policy (by setting this as default, it is >> enforcing a policy, even though an RT user can change it). > > The kernel has always done a certain amount of "default policy". > > What do you think things like "swappiness" etc are? Or things like > oevrcommit settings? They're all policies, and there is always a default > one. So in that sense the kernel always has - and fundamentally _must_ - > set some kind of policy. > > And the default policy should generally be the one that makes sense for > most people. Quite frankly, if it's an issue where all normal distros > would basically be expected to set a value, then that value should _be_ > the default policy, and none of the normal distros should ever need to > worry. > > Whether this case is one such, I dunno. Quite frankly, I don't think it's > even _nearly_ important enough to get this kind of noise. > > Linus
More and more are wanting and now finding the Linux kernel to be more RT capable. I seem to remember way back you saying it was one thing you didn't really care much about one way or the other. Thats OK. But, you _are_ the man. Put an end to this. Are you going to allow the long understood meaning of SCHED_FIFO to change in the Linux kernel just to protect a few _supposedly_ bad programmers???
Regards Mark
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