On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 02:12, Sampo Savolainen wrote: > Quoting Christoph Eckert <mchristoph.eckert@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > We all would be glad if we didn't need to patch and recompile > > the kernel. BUt there's hope that we get realtime > > capabilities in the vanilla kernel soon. Let's stay tuned. > > You are a bit late actually. :) > > >From 2.6.12 changelog: > > "commit e43379f10b42194b8a6e1de342cfb44463c0f6da > Author: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun May 1 08:59:00 2005 -0700 > > [PATCH] nice and rt-prio rlimits > > Add a pair of rlimits for allowing non-root tasks to raise nice and rt > priorities. Defaults to traditional behavior. Originally written by > Chris Wright. He may have been talking about the realtime preemption patch by Ingo Molnar... -- Fernando