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From: wferi@niif.hu (Ferenc Wágner)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: wferi@niif.hu
Subject: Re: What's the priority of the idle task?
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 19:45:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <876050ff3s.fsf@lant.ki.iif.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180404143735.GA23925@aton> (Till Smejkal's message of "Wed, 4 Apr 2018 16:37:35 +0200")

Till Smejkal <till.smejkal@googlemail.com> writes:

> [...] Hence, the idle task is not managed by CFS and accordingly
> doesn't have any nice value or priority (or at least it is not
> important nowadays).

Thanks for your very to-the-point answer!  I'm still disturbed by the
above statement, though, because not being managed by CFS does not imply
having no meaningful priority: RT tasks seem to have one.  Did you mean
to imply this?  Guessing not, I added your answer with code illustrations 
as https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/436575/119808.
-- 
Regards,
Feri

      reply	other threads:[~2018-04-09 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-03 10:24 What's the priority of the idle task? Ferenc Wágner
2018-04-04 14:37 ` Till Smejkal
2018-04-09 17:45   ` Ferenc Wágner [this message]

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