Re: scheduler nice 19 versus 'idle' behavior / static low-priorityscheduling

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Fri Jan 30 2009 - 03:07:55 EST


On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 02:59 -0500, Nathanael Hoyle wrote:

> I am running foldingathome under it at the moment, and it seems to be
> improving the situation somewhat, but I still need/want to test with
> Mike's referenced patches.

You will most definitely encounter evilness running SCHED_IDLE tasks in
a kernel without the SCHED_IDLE fixes.

-Mike

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