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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:44:21 +0000 From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com> Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, trond.myklebust@....uio.no, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, nfsv4@...ux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/45] Create a dynamically sized pool of threads for doing very slow work items [ver #41] Serge E. Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com> wrote: > > + set_user_nice(current, -5); > > Just curious - why -5? Actually, that's entirely arbitrary. I should probably make it configurable. > Whenever it is actually running you'd like it to have slightly higher > priority than ordinary user tasks? It's normally performing I/O on behalf of other tasks. I'm not sure what the best way to prioritise it is. David -- 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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