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To: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Scheduler: Process priority fed back to parent? 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Mar 2004 17:46:11 +0200."
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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:49:41 -0400
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org> said:

[...]

> This is something that I've thought of doing in the past. The reason I
> didn't pursue it further is that it's impossible to get it right for
> all cases, and it attacks the problem in the wrong place. The kernel
> shouldn't need to guess(timate) what the process is going to do. The
> userspace programmer, who knows what his process is going to do,
> should tell the kernel.

People have been known to lie on occasion, particularly when it is to their
advantage...
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