Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:16:43 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Make highly niced processes run only when idle |
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On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 06:05:13PM -0500, Robert Love wrote: > the boost... Or, we could fix in-kernel deadlocks by doing priority > inheriting on locks held by A and wanted by B (i.e., if A holds > something B wants, boost A's priority temporarily to that of B's). But > that is probably overkill ... note to do any of these it is probably > cleanest to make a SCHED_IDLE scheduling class.
Even better would be to keep the process at low priority while in userland and reverts to normal "nice" priority while in kernelspace.
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