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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] sched: Add SCHED_BGND (background) scheduling policy
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    On Wednesday 05 July 2006 09:35, Peter Williams wrote:
    > Problem:
    >
    > There is a genuine need for the ability to put tasks in the background
    > (a la the SCHED_IDLEPRIO policy in Con Kolivas's -sc kernels) as is
    > evidenced by comments in LKML re a desire for SCHED_BATCH tasks
    > to run completely in the background.
    >
    > Solution:
    >
    > Of course, one option would have been to just modify SCHED_BATCH so
    > that tasks with that policy run completely in the background but there is a
    > genuine need for a non background batch policy so the solution adopted
    > is to implementa a new policy SCHED_BGND.
    >
    > SCHED_BATCH means that it's a normal process and should get a fair
    > share of the CPU in accordance with its "nice" setting but it is NOT an
    > interactive task and should NOT receive any of the special treatment
    > that a task that is adjudged to be interactive receives. In particular,
    > it should always be moved to the expired array at the end of its time
    > slice as to do otherwise might result in CPU starvation for other tasks.
    >
    > SCHED_BGND means it's totally unimportant and should only be given the
    > CPU if no one else wants it OR if not giving it the CPU could lead to
    > priority inversion or starvation of other tasks due to this tasks holding
    > system resources.

    Could we just call it SCHED_IDLEPRIO since it's the same thing and there are
    tools out there that already use this name?

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