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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:58:43 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Documentation for FAIR_USER_SCHED sysfs files
* Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Hm, how about describing the units here? Can you put "10" in each
> > file and everyone will get the same share? 100? 1? 1024 seems
> > like an odd "share" number. Unless there is some other document you
> > wish to refer people to do help describe these values?
>
> It is proportional. That is, if two users have same value for shares,
> they will get equal bandwidth on the CPU. If they are in the ratio
> 1:2, then they will share it in that ratio. I've updated the patch for
> this. Hope it is clearer.
thanks, applied.
Ingo
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