Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:05:17 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>, akpm@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] export sched_setscheduler() for kernel module use
Message-ID: <20041116230517.GB31529@elte.hu>
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* Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >Using the linear priority has the
> >advantage of not having to pass any policy value - priorities between 0
> >and 99 implicitly mean SCHED_FIFO, priorities above that would mean
> >SCHED_NORMAL, a pretty natural and compact interface.
> 
> Just curious--why FIFO and not RR?

it shouldnt matter - if it matters, i.e. if any of these threads uses up
significant amount of CPU time then they should probably _not_ have a RT
priority to begin with.

	Ingo
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