Re: [PATCH] CFS: Fix missing digit off in wmult table

From: Roman Zippel
Date: Wed Jul 18 2007 - 10:02:19 EST


Hi,

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> The only expectation is that a process with a lower nice level gets more
> time. Any other expectation is a bug.

Yes, users are buggy, they expect a lot of stupid things...
Is this really reason enough to break this?

What exactly is the damage if setpriority() accepts a few more levels?

bye, Roman
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