[RC5] Interactive jobs detectors

[Meelis Roos]

> >2. There's a patch for linux kernel to add idle scheduler class so the
> >rc5 client can have _really_ idle priority.
> >
> Any idea why this isn't in the standard kernel?

This may cause resource starvation and even deadlock in its current
form. Not really but theoretically - when the ide priority process grabs
some resource aga is preempted by some higher priority process which
needs this resource. There is a theoretical deadlock possibility and the
patch is not going in before it's clean of such potential problems.

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Meelis Roos             e-mail: mroos at ut.ee
                        www:    http://www.cs.ut.ee/~mroos/

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