Re: [PATCH] sched: Add SCHED_BGND (background) scheduling policy

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

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.

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