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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: Alexander Clouter <alex-kernel@digriz.org.uk>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com,
	davej@codemonkey.org.uk, blaisorblade@yahoo.it
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] cpufreq_conservative/ondemand: invert meaning of 'ignore nice'
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:59:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051113195943.GD2193@spitz.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511110248.58751.kernel@kolivas.org>

Hi!

> > The use of the 'ignore_nice' sysfs file is confusing to anyone using it.
> > This removes the sysfs file 'ignore_nice' and in its place creates a
> > 'ignore_nice_load' entry which defaults to '1'; meaning nice'd processes
> > are not counted towards the 'business' caclulation.
> 
> And just for the last time I'll argue that the default should be 0. I have yet 
> to discuss this with any laptop user who thinks that 1 is the correct default 
> for ondemand.

Me. I have graphics appp here (almara), that does user interaction in 
separate thread from real workers. Yet you want real workers to run...

And consider notebook on ac power, using ondemand for acoustic management.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-16 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-10 15:11 [patch 1/1] cpufreq_conservative/ondemand: invert meaning of 'ignore nice' Alexander Clouter
2005-11-10 15:48 ` Con Kolivas
2005-11-10 15:54   ` Alexander Clouter
2005-11-13 19:59   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-11-18 12:07   ` Stefan Seyfried
2005-11-21 15:29 ` Dave Jones
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-10 17:00 Alexander Clouter
2005-11-10 23:12 ` Con Kolivas
2005-11-11  9:09   ` Alexander Clouter
2005-11-12  3:30 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2005-11-21 18:17 Alexander Clouter
2005-11-22  1:21 ` Ken Moffat
2005-11-22  2:22   ` Dave Jones
2005-11-22  2:31     ` Con Kolivas
2005-11-22 11:43       ` Ken Moffat
2005-11-22  8:52   ` Alexander Clouter
2005-11-22 11:38     ` Ken Moffat
2005-11-23  9:46 ` Andrew Morton

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