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SubjectRe: Scheduler: Process priority fed back to parent?
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Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org> said:

[...]

> This is something that I've thought of doing in the past. The reason I
> didn't pursue it further is that it's impossible to get it right for
> all cases, and it attacks the problem in the wrong place. The kernel
> shouldn't need to guess(timate) what the process is going to do. The
> userspace programmer, who knows what his process is going to do,
> should tell the kernel.

People have been known to lie on occasion, particularly when it is to their
advantage...
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