From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932365AbWGEAwc (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jul 2006 20:52:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932378AbWGEAwc (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jul 2006 20:52:32 -0400 Received: from mail06.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.187]:59541 "EHLO mail06.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932365AbWGEAwb (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jul 2006 20:52:31 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Peter Williams Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Add SCHED_BGND (background) scheduling policy Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 10:52:13 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , Linux Kernel , Ingo Molnar References: <20060704233521.8744.45368.sendpatchset@heathwren.pw.nest> <200607051014.48089.kernel@kolivas.org> <44AB0CA2.5080908@bigpond.net.au> In-Reply-To: <44AB0CA2.5080908@bigpond.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607051052.13783.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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. -- -ck