linux-kernel - Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

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Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:09:24 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]


* Mike Galbraith <efault@....de> wrote:

> With a heavily reniced X (perfectly fine), that should indeed solve my 
> daily usage pattern nicely (always need godmode for shells, but not 
> for mozilla and ilk. 50/50 split automatic without renice of entire 
> gui)

how about the first-approximation solution i suggested in the previous 
mail: to add a per UID default nice level? (With this default defaulting 
to '-10' for all root-owned processes, and defaulting to '0' for 
everything else.) That would solve most of the current CFS regressions 
at hand.

	Ingo
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