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Date:      Mon, 3 Nov 2003 06:52:10 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: More ULE bugs fixed.
Message-ID:  <20031103145210.GJ52314@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031103233521.L1786@gamplex.bde.org>
References:  <20031102055955.U10222-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> <20031103233521.L1786@gamplex.bde.org>

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On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:33:48AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> I think the existence of rtprio and a non-broken idprio makes infinite
> deprioritization using niceness unnecessary.  (idprio is still broken
> (not available to users) in -current, but it doesn't need to be if
> priority propagation is working as it should be.)  It's safer and fairer
> for all niced processes to not completely prevent each other being
> scheduled, and use the special scheduling classes for cases where this
> is not wanted.  I'd mainly like the slices for nice -20 vs nice --20
> processes to be very small and/or infrequent.

I agree.  With idprio, there is no need for a special nice value that is
handled outside the normal rules of "nice".  I always thought that a wart
after using Irix which has a working idprio.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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