Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 05 Mar 2006 08:37:49 +1100 | | From | Peter Williams <> | | Subject | Re: [patch 2.6.16-rc5-mm2] sched_cleanup-V17 - task throttling patch 1 of 2 |
Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 10:58 +1100, Peter Williams wrote: > > >>If you're going to manage the time slice in nanoseconds why not do it >>properly? I presume you've held back a bit in case you break something? >> > > > Do you mean the < NS_TICK thing? The spare change doesn't go away.
Not exactly. I mean "Why calculate time slice in jiffies and convert to nanoseconds? Why not just do the calculation in nanoseconds?"
> > >>If it helps, the smpnice balancing code's use of static_prio_timeslice() >>doesn't really care what units it's return value is in as long as >>DEF_TIMESLICE is in the same units and contains the size of a time slice >>allocated to a nice==0 non RT task. > > > Ok, thanks. I wanted to make very certain I couldn't screw it up. > Still, it's simpler to just leave it in ticks. > > -Mike
Peter -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au
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