Re: [patch 2.6.16-rc5-mm2] sched_cleanup-V17 - task throttling patch 1 of 2

Mike Galbraith
2006-03-04T04:52:51Z

On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 10:58 +1100, Peter Williams wrote:

> If you're going to manage the time slice in nanoseconds why not do it
> properly? I presume you've held back a bit in case you break something?
>

Do you mean the < NS_TICK thing? The spare change doesn't go away.

> If it helps, the smpnice balancing code's use of static_prio_timeslice()
> doesn't really care what units it's return value is in as long as
> DEF_TIMESLICE is in the same units and contains the size of a time slice
> allocated to a nice==0 non RT task.

Ok, thanks. I wanted to make very certain I couldn't screw it up.
Still, it's simpler to just leave it in ticks.

-Mike