Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263561AbTKKRrJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:47:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263587AbTKKRrJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:47:09 -0500 Received: from bbned23-32-100.dsl.hccnet.nl ([80.100.32.23]:7078 "EHLO fw-loc.vanvergehaald.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263561AbTKKRrG (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:47:06 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:46:55 +0100 From: Toon van der Pas To: Albert Cahalan Cc: linux-kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfq + io priorities Message-ID: <20031111174654.GA28693@hout.vanvergehaald.nl> References: <1068469674.734.80.camel@cube> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1068469674.734.80.camel@cube> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1471 Lines: 42 On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:07:54AM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 05:19, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Albert Cahalan wrote: > > > > > > Sure, but do it in a way that's friendly to > > > all the apps and admins that only know "nice". > > > > > > nice_cpu sets CPU niceness > > > nice_net sets net niceness > > > nice_disk sets disk niceness > > > ... > > > nice sets all niceness values at once > > > > That's a user space problem. No matter what Jens > > does, you can always make nice(1) do what you said. > > It's not just the nice command. There's a syscall > interface you know, and lots of apps use it. > > #include > int nice(int inc); > > You planning to hack ALL those apps? You'll > convince BSD-centric developers to include > this Linux-specific change? Yes, I really would like all those apps to be hacked. Because I want to REMOVE those nice() calls, not because I want to add another piece of functionality that doesn't belong in apps in the first place. My opinion is that it's the system administrator's job to assign nice-values to processes. Apps that do that themselves make the task of the admin harder, if not impossible. Regards, Toon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/