> > This probably about covers it. There may be some times when
> > nice tasks are very important, but I can't think of any.
> If the niced process is a simulation which has been running
> for a week, you want to preserve it because otherwise a week
> of work has been lost.
> (yes, this is handled by my patch)
This section of code from your patch suggests otherwise to me..
+ * Niced processes are probably less important; kernel/sched.c
+ * and include/linux/sched.h contain most info on scheduling.
+ */
+ if (p->priority < DEF_PRIORITY)
+ points <<= 1;
+/*
Or are we discussing a different patch ?
regards,
Dave.
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