linux-kernel - Re: [tip:sched/core] sched: Keep kthreads at default priority

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Date:	Wed, 9 Sep 2009 09:55:40 -0700
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, efault@....de, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...e.hu
Cc:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:sched/core] sched: Keep kthreads at default priority

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 03:37:34PM +0000, tip-bot for Mike Galbraith wrote:
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
> index eb8751a..5fe7099 100644
> --- a/kernel/kthread.c
> +++ b/kernel/kthread.c
> @@ -16,8 +16,6 @@
>  #include <linux/mutex.h>
>  #include <trace/events/sched.h>
>  
> -#define KTHREAD_NICE_LEVEL (-5)
> -

Why don't we just redefine it to 0? We may find out later that we'd
still prefer to have kernel threads have boost.

-- 
Dmitry
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