Blaisorblade wrote:
> *) to rename the flag to ignore_nice_load or ignore_nice_tasks, to avoid
> burning the user too much. Very few people use it now, but let's help them.
I use it and i have even "fixed" my applications to use the "wrong" flag.
>> My thinking too, its a relatively new feature and when I have looked around
>> very few userland tools even tinker with ondemand so either we do it now or
>> not at all...or rather we do it later and listen to everyone complain :)
so the early birds are doomed? ;-)
I'll bite the bullet if this "flip the meaning" gets in, but i don't
like it. I'll have to check for the kernel version in my userspace code,
then which is generally a bad idea IMO.
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