From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Add SCHED_BGND (background) scheduling policy
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 10:52:13 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607051052.13783.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44AB0CA2.5080908@bigpond.net.au>
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 10:49, Peter Williams wrote:
> Con Kolivas wrote:
> > Could we just call it SCHED_IDLEPRIO since it's the same thing and there
> > are tools out there that already use this name?
>
> I'm easy. Which user space visible headers contain the definition?
> That's the only place that it matters. When I was writing a program to
> use this feature, I couldn't find a header that defined any of the
> scheduler policies that was visible in user space (of course, that
> doesn't mean there isn't one - just that I couldn't find it).
Obviously nothing since this is out of tree stuff; it's hard coded into the
apps themselves currently.
> Peter
> PS Any programs that use SCHED_IDLEPRIO should work as long as its value
> is defined as 4.
Aye I just figured not confusing terminology would be nice.
--
-ck
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-05 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-04 23:35 [PATCH] sched: Add SCHED_BGND (background) scheduling policy Peter Williams
2006-07-05 0:14 ` Con Kolivas
2006-07-05 0:49 ` Peter Williams
2006-07-05 0:52 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
2006-07-05 8:05 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-07-05 14:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-05 0:44 ` Con Kolivas
2006-07-05 1:15 ` Peter Williams
2006-07-05 1:33 ` Con Kolivas
2006-07-05 4:20 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-05 3:06 ` Peter Williams
2006-07-05 6:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-07-05 8:03 ` Peter Williams
2006-07-05 8:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-05 8:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-07-05 17:40 ` Nick Piggin
2006-07-05 11:42 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-07-05 13:59 ` Peter Williams
2006-07-05 14:18 ` Peter Williams
2006-07-05 14:48 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-07-06 23:50 ` Peter Williams
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