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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make highly niced processes run only when idle
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On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 06:21:05PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> Ahh ... wait, do you mean periodically run them, but only give them the
> boost while they are in kernel space?  Very good idea.  Can you see an
> easy way to do this?

Actually, yes: in entry.S the ret_from_syscall path which calls schedule 
can be changed to pass a parameter indicating it is returning to userspace 
afterwards which would let schedule know the bump is not needed.

		-ben
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