>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected]
>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>Alexander Clouter
>Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:11 AM
>To: [email protected]; [email protected]
>Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
>Subject: [patch 1/1] cpufreq_conservative/ondemand: invert
>meaning of 'ignore nice'
>
>The use of the 'ignore_nice' sysfs file is confusing to anyone
>using it.
>This removes the sysfs file 'ignore_nice' and in its place creates a
>'ignore_nice_load' entry which defaults to '1'; meaning nice'd
>processes are
>not counted towards the 'business' caclulation.
>
>WARNING: this obvious breaks any userland tools that expected
>'ignore_nice'
>to exist, to draw attention to this fact it was concluded on
>the mailing list
>that the entry should be removed altogether so the userland
>app breaks and so
>the author can build simple to detect workaround. Having said
>that it seems
>currently very few tools even make use of this functionality;
>all I could
>find was a Gentoo Wiki entry.
>
Wondering whether a 'version' sysfs entry in cpufreq and ondemand
directory to make sure any change in the interfaces won't break
the user space tools in future....
Thanks,
Venki
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