From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758769AbZE1OQ2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2009 10:16:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757039AbZE1OQU (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2009 10:16:20 -0400 Received: from tango.0pointer.de ([85.214.72.216]:34800 "EHLO tango.0pointer.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756776AbZE1OQT (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2009 10:16:19 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 384 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 10:16:19 EDT Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 16:15:55 +0200 From: Lennart Poettering To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] scheduler: introduce SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK scheduling policy flag Message-ID: <20090528141555.GA17373@tango.0pointer.de> References: <20090528140953.GA16470@omega> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090528140953.GA16470@omega> Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Campaign-1: () ASCII Ribbon Campaign X-Campaign-2: / Against HTML Email & vCards - Against Microsoft Attachments User-Agent: Leviathan/19.8.0 [zh] (Cray 3; I; Solaris 4.711; Console) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 28.05.09 16:09, Lennart Poettering (mzxreary@0pointer.de) wrote: Please ignore the 3/3 in the subject of the original patch. It's just this one patch. Sorry for the confusion. > This patch introduces a new flag SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK which can be passed > to the kernel via sched_setscheduler(), ORed in the policy parameter. If > set this will make sure that when the process forks a) the scheduling > priority is reset to DEFAULT_PRIO if it was higher and b) the scheduling > policy is reset to SCHED_NORMAL if it was either SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4