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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 00:46:23 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make highly niced processes run only when idle
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On 9 Dec 2001, Robert Love wrote:

> Hmm, what if we only boosted it based on something like this:
>
> 	if (p->policy == SCHED_IDLE) {
> 		weight = p->counter;
> 		if (p->lock_depth >= 0 || signal_pending(p))
> 			/* boost somehow ... */
> 	}

Now what if the process is holding an inode or superblock
semaphore ?

Rik
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