linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] sched: deferred set priority (dprio)

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Message-ID: <53D2BA45.8030502@amacapital.net>
Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:12:53 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Sergey Oboguev <oboguev.public@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] sched: deferred set priority (dprio)

On 07/25/2014 12:45 PM, Sergey Oboguev wrote:
> [This is a repost of the message from few day ago, with patch file
> inline instead of being pointed by the URL.]
> 
> This patch is intended to improve the support for fine-grain parallel
> applications that may sometimes need to change the priority of their threads at
> a very high rate, hundreds or even thousands of times per scheduling timeslice.

What is the authlist stuff for?  It looks complicated and it seems like
it should be unnecessary.

What's with the save/restore code?  What's it saving and restoring?

--Andy
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