linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK to recalculate load weights

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Message-ID: <1286639626.1891.0.camel@laptop>
Date:	Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:53:46 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK to recalculate load weights

On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 10:16 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 
> So we always need to call set_load_weight(), not just if the
> niceval was changed, because the scheduler gives
> SCHED_RR/SCHED_FIFO processes very high weights. 

SCHED_RR/FIFO never uses that weight, we should remove all that cruft..


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