On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 03:11:11PM +0000, Alexander Clouter wrote:
> 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <[email protected]>
> diff -r -u -d linux-2.6.14-rc2.orig/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c \
> linux-2.6.14-rc2/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c
> --- linux-2.6.14-rc2.orig/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c 2005-10-03 \
> 20:05:30.742334750 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.14-rc2/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c 2005-10-06 \
> 21:10:47.785133750 +0100 @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
> {
This patch is horribly word-wrapped. Please resend.
Dave
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