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Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 14:14:07 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: "Dimitrie O. Paun" <dimi@intelliware.ca>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [patch] "HT scheduler", sched-2.5.63-B3
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>> yes, an ELF flag might work, or my suggestion to allow applications to
>> increase their priority (up until a certain degree).
> 
> An ELF flag might be better, as it's declarative -- it allows the kernel
> to implement 'interactivity' in various ways, so we can keep tweeking it.
> Priority might prove to be a bit different than interactivity, so we
> better not overload the two just yet.

Difficult to see how this would work. For instance, is bash interactive 
or a batch job?

M.

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