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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Ton Hospel <linux-kernel@ton.iguana.be>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make highly niced processes run only when idle
Date: 10 Dec 2001 20:54:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1008035682.4287.3.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9v3nvj$a99$1@post.home.lunix>
In-Reply-To: <75F30A52-ECF4-11D5-80FE-00039355CFA6@suespammers.org> <1007939114.878.1.camel@phantasy>  <9v3nvj$a99$1@post.home.lunix>

On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 20:36, Ton Hospel wrote:

> Please don't. Whenever you think you priority inheritance, it's a sign your 
> system has got too complicated. The simplest solution is to simply have no
> priorities when a task is in-kernel (or at least non that can completely
> exclude a task).

I agree, I said it was overkill.

My solution is going to be to schedule the task as a SCHED_OTHER task
when in the kernel, and as SCHED_IDLE task otherwise.

	Robert Love


  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-11  1:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-08  4:38 [PATCH] Make highly niced processes run only when idle root
2001-12-08  4:39 ` Robert Love
2001-12-09 22:31   ` Anthony DeRobertis
2001-12-09 23:05     ` Robert Love
2001-12-09 23:16       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-09 23:21         ` Robert Love
2001-12-09 23:46           ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-10  0:30             ` Robert Love
2001-12-10  2:46               ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-10 12:25                 ` Niteshadow
2001-12-11  1:35               ` Steve Bergman
2001-12-19 23:49           ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-11  1:36       ` Ton Hospel
2001-12-11  1:54         ` Robert Love [this message]
2001-12-13 21:42           ` Pavel Machek

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