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From: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	hpa@zytor.com, mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Document that RT task priorities are 1...99
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:43:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tveyt924.fsf@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190416094727.xanzq5t2xjuflcbt@linutronix.de> (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior's message of "Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:47:27 +0200")

On 2019-04-16, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> wrote:
> On 2019-04-16 11:36:34 [+0200], Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 01:13:11AM -0700, tip-bot for Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>> > Commit-ID:  37a8f8590f307db8f8cfa62dfd82b3fc0978607c
>> > Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/37a8f8590f307db8f8cfa62dfd82b3fc0978607c
>> > Author:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
>> > AuthorDate: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 23:08:21 +0200
>> > Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
>> > CommitDate: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:06:08 +0200
>> > 
>> > sched/core: Document that RT task priorities are 1...99
>> > 
>> > John identified three files which claim that RT task priorities start at
>> > zero. As far as I understand, 0 is used for DL and has nothing to do
>> > wihich RT priorities as identified by the RT policy.
>> 
>> DL is -1, 0 is still very much FIFO/FF
>
> but it can't be set. The lowest we can set is 1. Is this a bug then?

I think it is important to clarify if you are talking about userspace or
kernel. They are different. For userspace 1(low)-99(high) is
allowed. For kernel 0(high)-98(low) is used.

John Ogness

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-16 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-03 21:08 [PATCH] sched: Document that RT task priorities are 1…99 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-04-03 21:17 ` John Ogness
2019-04-04  7:45   ` John Ogness
2019-04-16  8:13 ` [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Document that RT task priorities are 1...99 tip-bot for Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-04-16  9:36   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-16  9:47     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-04-16 11:22       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-16 12:08         ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-04-16 12:43       ` John Ogness [this message]
2019-06-17 12:24 ` [PATCH] sched: Document that RT task priorities are 1…99 Peter Zijlstra

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