Re: [RESEND PATCH v3 0/7] Improve scheduler scalability for fast path

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 02:55:52PM +0100, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
> On 01-Jul 11:02, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > Some of the things we could tie to this would be:
> > 
> >   - select_idle_siblings; -nice would scan more than +nice,
> 
> Just to be sure, you are not proposing to use the nice value we
> already have, i.e.
>   p->{static,normal}_prio
> but instead a new similar concept, right?

Correct; a new sched_attr::sched_latency_nice value, which is like
sched_nice, but controls a different dimmension of behaviour.