On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 02:11 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Should there be a watchdog which checks for a process which has run > realtime for a certain period and which then takes some action? Such as > descheduling it for a while, generating warnings, demoting its policy, > killing it etc?
Using the analogy of the OOM killer being called, this wouldn't be a bad idea IMO - especially if it were configurable, and off by default. This couldn't be done in a kernel thread (unless some new priority level were created for it), but I think the details can be worked out later. Michal - what do you think is the best upstream solution? Jon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
