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From: Kristis Makris <devcore@freeuk.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] niceness magic numbers, 2.4.20-pre11
Date: 23 Oct 2002 20:22:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1035429764.528.8.camel@mcmicro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1035402772.3171.1550.camel@phantasy>

> > > -#define	PRIO_MAX	20
> > > +#define	PRIO_MAX	19
> > 
> > I suspect this isnt correct
> 
> Agreed.  Its not.
> 
> It should remain 20 and places that truly want 19 should do PRIO_MAX-1.

Please excuse my inexperience; I don't understand why a 41 value range
is defined instead, and faked as a 40. Is this merely for the
convinience of ignoring 0 ? From the nice manpage:

"Range goes from -20 (highest priority) to 19 (lowest)."

Thanks,
Kristis


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-24  3:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-23  4:59 [PATCH] niceness magic numbers, 2.4.20-pre11 Kristis Makris
2002-10-23  6:37 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-10-23  8:16   ` Alan Cox
2002-10-23 19:52     ` Robert Love
2002-10-23 23:50       ` [PATCH] niceness magic numbers, 2.5.44 now Randy.Dunlap
2002-10-24  0:11         ` Robert Love
2002-10-24  3:22       ` Kristis Makris [this message]
2002-10-24  3:32         ` [PATCH] niceness magic numbers, 2.4.20-pre11 Robert Love

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