From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>,
linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel@kolivas.org, Andrew Morton OSDL <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: SCHED_BATCH and SCHED_BATCH numbering
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 11:27:40 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41118D0C.9090103@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41118AAE.7090107@bigpond.net.au>
Peter Williams wrote:
> Albert Cahalan wrote:
>
>> Are these going to be numbered consecutively, or might
>> they better be done like the task state? SCHED_FIFO is
>> in fact already treated this way in one place. One might
>> want to test values this way:
>>
>> if(foo & (SCHED_ISO|SCHED_RR|SCHED_FIFO)) ...
>>
>> (leaving aside SCHED_OTHER==0, or just translate
>> that single value for the ABI)
>>
>> I'd like to see these get permenant allocations
>> soon, even if the code doesn't go into the kernel.
>> This is because user-space needs to know the values.
>
>
> Excellent idea. The definition of rt_task() could become:
>
> #define rt_task(p) ((p)->policy & (SCHED_RR|SCHED_FIFO))
>
> instead of the highly dodgy:
>
> #define rt_task(p) ((p)->prio < MAX_RT_PRIO)
>
Nothing wrong with that, is there?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-05 1:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-04 16:50 SCHED_BATCH and SCHED_BATCH numbering Albert Cahalan
2004-08-05 1:17 ` Peter Williams
2004-08-05 1:27 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-08-05 2:09 ` Peter Williams
2004-08-05 2:23 ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-05 3:03 ` Peter Williams
2004-08-05 3:06 ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-05 2:28 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-05 7:06 ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-05 3:36 ` Peter Williams
2004-08-05 4:15 ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-05 6:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-05 9:48 ` Albert Cahalan
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