Subject: Re: scheduler nice 19 versus 'idle' behavior / static low-priority
	scheduling
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Nathanael Hoyle <nhoyle@hoyletech.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       stable <stable@kernel.org>
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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:50:57 +0100
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On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 11:40 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 11:31 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 05:18 -0500, Nathanael Hoyle wrote:
> > 
> > > Ok, I'm now running:
> > > 
> > > Linux nightmare 2.6.28.2-nhoyle #1 SMP Fri Jan 30 04:50:03 EST 2009
> > > x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz GenuineIntel
> > > GNU/Linux
> > > 
> > > Initial conclusion is that whatever defects were corrected (non
> > > SCHED_IDLE specific defects that is), the newer kernel version does the
> > > trick.  Video playback is as smooth as ever when running foldingathome
> > > at simple nice 19 priority.
> > 
> > Good to hear, thanks for testing.
> > 
> > Peter, since 27 is a long term maintenance kernel, do you think 1af5f73
> > and 046e7f7 (at least) are 27.stable candidates?
> 
> 1af5f730fc1bf7c62ec9fb2d307206e18bf40a69 and
> e17036dac189dd034c092a91df56aa740db7146d you mean?

Yeah.

> I guess that makes sense.

(adds cc)

	-Mike

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