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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:48:11 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, James Bruce <bruce@...rew.cmu.edu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...e.de>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] CFS: Fix missing digit off in wmult table * Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org> wrote: > > By breaking the UNIX model of nice levels. Not an option in my book. > > Breaking user expectations of nice levels is? _changing_ it is an option within reason, and we've done it a couple of times already in the past, and even within CFS (as Peter correctly observed) we've been through a couple of iterations already. And as i mentioned it before, the outer edge of nice levels (+19, by far the most commonly used nice level) was inconsistent to begin with: 3%, 5%, 9% of nice-0, depending on HZ. So changing that to a consistent (and user-requested) 1.5% is a much smaller change than you seem to make it out to be. CFS itself is a far larger "change of expectations" than this tweak to nice levels. So by your standard we could never change the scheduler. (which your ultimate argument might be after all =B-) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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