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Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Realtime thread scheduling changed
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, John Baldwin wrote:

> This is just a heads up that I've committed some changes to how the scheduler
> handles realtime thread priorities.  Please let me know of any issues you
> encounter with nice, rtprio, or idprio.  Note that as a result of these
> changes, rtprio threads will no longer share priorities with interactive
> timeshare threads.  Instead, rtprio threads are now always more important than
> non-rt threads.

Cool - thanks for doing this!  Is this something that could
be MFC'able to 8?

-- 
DE