On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:32:56PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> I'm already working with this as my assumed nice semantics (actually >> something with a specific exponential base, suggested in other emails) >> until others start saying they want something different and agree. On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 05:39:09PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > Good. This has a couple nice mathematical properties, including > "bounded unfairness" which I mentioned earlier. What base are you > looking at? I'm working with the following suggestion: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:07:49AM -0400, James Bruce wrote: > Nonlinear is a must IMO. I would suggest X = exp(ln(10)/10) ~= 1.2589 > That value has the property that a nice=10 task gets 1/10th the cpu of a > nice=0 task, and a nice=20 task gets 1/100 of nice=0. I think that > would be fairly easy to explain to admins and users so that they can > know what to expect from nicing tasks. I'm not likely to write the testcase until this upcoming weekend, though. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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