linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] scheduler: introduce SCHED_RESET_ON

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Date:	Thu, 28 May 2009 16:15:55 +0200
From:	Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	peterz@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] scheduler: introduce SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK
	scheduling policy flag

On Thu, 28.05.09 16:09, Lennart Poettering (mzxreary@...inter.de) wrote:

Please ignore the 3/3 in the subject of the original patch. It's just
this one patch. Sorry for the confusion.

> This patch introduces a new flag SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK which can be passed
> to the kernel via sched_setscheduler(), ORed in the policy parameter. If
> set this will make sure that when the process forks a) the scheduling
> priority is reset to DEFAULT_PRIO if it was higher and b) the scheduling
> policy is reset to SCHED_NORMAL if it was either SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR.

Lennart

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