linux-kernel - Re: Sched_autogroup and niced processes

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Date:	Fri, 13 May 2011 11:07:46 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@...il.com>,
	Carl-Johan Kjellander <carl-johan@...rna.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sched_autogroup and niced processes

On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 11:05 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Could we somehow automate this:
> 
>   > echo 19 > /proc/'pid of seti@...e'/autogroup
> 
> and split off nice 19 tasks into separate groups and lower the group's 
> priority? 

Well I guess you can stack on all kinds of heuristics, do we want to?
I'd argue for not, keep is simple.
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