On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi all > > I've tried to check related scheduler code and I've got impression > that in CFS scheduler, dynamic priority level no longer determines > which process will be picked up by the scheduler. Instead, it is now > the waiting time that becomes the primary factor to watch...the longer > it waits, thus it is treated "more unfair"...then it will be picked > ASAP. Is this correct? AFAIK, this is correct > If it is correct, then is it still useful to assign different nice > level to mark the importance of a process? Waiting time for different process are virtual time, I mean waiting time depends on priority of the process also. Waiting time of a process with higher priority will increase faster so that it get picked sooner. > Thanks in advance for your help. > > -- > regards, > > Mulyadi Santosa > Freelance Linux trainer > blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com > Thanks, Chetan Nanda > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > >
