Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:16:46 +0100 (CET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
To: Nathanael Hoyle <nhoyle@hoyletech.com>
cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: scheduler nice 19 versus 'idle' behavior / static low-priority
 scheduling
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On Friday 2009-01-30 06:49, Nathanael Hoyle wrote:
>
>I have done a bit of research on how the kernel scheduler works, and
>why I am seeing this behavior. I had previously, apparently
>ignorantly, equated 'nice 19' with being akin to Microsoft Windows'
>'idle' thread priority, and assumed it would never steal CPU cycles
>from a process with a higher(lower, depending on nomenclature)
>priority. [...]
>
>One[...] is to alter the semantics of nice 19 such that it does not
>boost. Since this would break existing assumptions and code, I do
>not think it is feasible. [...] Finally, new scheduling classes
>could be introduced[...]

Surprise. There is already SCHED_BATCH (intended for computing tasks
as I gathered) and SCHED_IDLE (for idle stuff).


>Please make the obvious substitution to my email address in order to 
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(Obviously this is not obvious... there are no 'nospam' keywords or 
similar in it that could be removed.)
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