Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932769Ab1EMJHx (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2011 05:07:53 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:41281 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932201Ab1EMJHw convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2011 05:07:52 -0400 Subject: Re: Sched_autogroup and niced processes From: Peter Zijlstra To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mike Galbraith , Yong Zhang , Carl-Johan Kjellander , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20110513090537.GH13647@elte.hu> References: <1305273950.15080.7.camel@marge.simson.net> <20110513082250.GB13647@elte.hu> <1305276066.2561.1.camel@twins> <20110513090537.GH13647@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 11:07:46 +0200 Message-ID: <1305277666.2561.9.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 583 Lines: 15 On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 11:05 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Could we somehow automate this: > > > echo 19 > /proc/'pid of seti@home'/autogroup > > and split off nice 19 tasks into separate groups and lower the group's > priority? Well I guess you can stack on all kinds of heuristics, do we want to? I'd argue for not, keep is simple. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/