Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 4/6] sched: dont renice kernel threads

2007-03-16 Thread Con Kolivas
On Saturday 17 March 2007 02:14, Chris Friesen wrote: > Con Kolivas wrote: > > The practice of renicing kernel threads to negative nice values is of > > questionable benefit at best, and at worst leads to larger latencies when > > kernel threads are busy on behalf of other tasks. > > What about the

Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 4/6] sched: dont renice kernel threads

2007-03-16 Thread Chris Friesen
Con Kolivas wrote: The practice of renicing kernel threads to negative nice values is of questionable benefit at best, and at worst leads to larger latencies when kernel threads are busy on behalf of other tasks. What about the priority implications of the renicing? It seems a bit iffy lettin