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Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] batch/idle priority scheduling, SCHED_BATCH
From: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@attbi.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 17:26, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> -#define SCHED_OTHER		0
> +#define SCHED_NORMAL		0

>From IEEE 1003.1-2001 / Open Group Base Spec. Issue 6:
"Conforming implementations shall include one scheduling policy
identified as SCHED_OTHER (which may execute identically with either the
FIFO or round robin scheduling policy)."

So, you probably want to add a "#define SCHED_OTHER SCHED_NORMAL" here
in order to prevent future confusion, especially because the user-space
headers have SCHED_OTHER, but no SCHED_NORMAL.

- Nicholas

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