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On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > > * Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > > If we don't have any man page, what is the actual definition of > > SCHED_IDLE anyway? > > it's rather simple: "it's a priority level even lower priority than nice > +19". Some other questions whose answers may be worth including in the man page: * When was SCHED_IDLE added? (Actually, who added it?) * Why was it added? (What are the particular benefits of the new sceuling class as opposed to using a very low nice value for SCHED_OTHER?) * What's the difference between SCHED_IDLE and SCHED_BATCH? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Want to report a man-pages bug? Look here: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html | ||||||||||||
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