Re: [PATCH 19/19] workqueue: implement concurrency managedworkqueue

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Sun Oct 04 2009 - 04:48:51 EST


On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 07:49 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> This approach would appear to rule out the option of setting a work
> thread's state (scheduling policy, scheduling priority, uid, etc) to
> anything other than some default.
>
> I guess that's unlikely to be a problem if we haven't yet had a need to
> do that, but I'd be a bit surprised to discover that nobody has done
> that sort of thing yet? Nobody has niced up their workqueue threads?

-rt actually used to do PI on worklets, and that sure flipped the
scheduling class around a lot.
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