[haiku-development] Re: The new locking primitives and boosting -- I need some guidance here :)
- From: "André Braga" <meianoite@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:41:02 -0300
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 09:50, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think meant RT prio vs non-root.
> RT priority threads can hog the system, which shouldn't be doable by a
> user.
Actually it doesn't make much sense for a user that's not sitting on
the console to be allowed anything above B_NORMAL_PRIORITY (as its
priority value is 10, and B_DISPLAY_PRIORITY is quite close at 15).
> There I think some capability based system should help.
Definitely. And there's already some groundwork laid on the scheduler
for this to be pretty easy to implement.
> When logging in a user would just be granted the RT cap for his
> session.
Well, this doesn't require a full-blown capability model like
scheduling groups, but it sure is a nice workaround ;)
Cheers,
A.
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