Re: What's the priority of the idle task?

From: Ferenc WÃgner
Date: Mon Apr 09 2018 - 13:45:55 EST


Till Smejkal <till.smejkal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> [...] Hence, the idle task is not managed by CFS and accordingly
> doesn't have any nice value or priority (or at least it is not
> important nowadays).

Thanks for your very to-the-point answer! I'm still disturbed by the
above statement, though, because not being managed by CFS does not imply
having no meaningful priority: RT tasks seem to have one. Did you mean
to imply this? Guessing not, I added your answer with code illustrations
as https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/436575/119808.
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Regards,
Feri