PREREQUISITES:
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This package is released under the terms of the GPL2; you can read it in the
file LICENSE. Use at your own risk.

SCHED_NORMAL, SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR are the supported out of the box
by every linux-kernel.
If you want to use special scheduling policies, get the according patches
listed below.


o SCHED_BATCH:
    Kernel 2.4.18+ with Ingo Molnar's O(1)-sched-patch
    [ http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mingo ]

    2.5.X kernels and the stock 2.6 don't seem to know about SCHED_BATCH.
    Con Kolivas maintains patches for 2.6.
    [ http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6 ]


o SCHED_ISO:
    2.6.X and special patches by Con Kolivas
    [ http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6 ]


o CPU-AFFINITY:
    kernel 2.5.8 or later

    RedHat9 does contain a patched kernel that supports CPU-affinity

    for 2.4.X the -aa series also contain support for CPU-affinity
    [ http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea ]