Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261875AbUKPWR6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:17:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261873AbUKPWR6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:17:58 -0500 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:33975 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261839AbUKPWB2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:01:28 -0500 Message-ID: <419A78A5.1060800@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:01:09 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Dean Nelson , Chris Wright , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Patch] export sched_setscheduler() for kernel module use References: <4198F70D.mailxMSZ11J00J@aqua.americas.sgi.com> <20041115105801.T14339@build.pdx.osdl.net> <20041115203343.GA32173@sgi.com> <20041116104821.GA31395@elte.hu> <20041116201841.GA29687@sgi.com> <20041116223608.GA27550@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20041116223608.GA27550@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 542 Lines: 14 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? Chris - 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/