sched: increase ksoftirqd priority

PATCH In review Con Kolivas 1 participant 1 message Apr 19, 2007

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Con Kolivas

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2007-04-19 15:04 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 3/3 sched: increase ksoftirqd priority

More aggressive nice discrimination by the Staircase-Deadline cpu scheduler means ksoftirqd is getting significantly less cpu than previously. Adjust nice value accordingly for similar cpu distribution.

Signed-off-by Con Kolivas <[email protected]>

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 kernel/softirq.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

kernel/softirq.c +1 -1

Index: linux-2.6.21-rc7-sd/kernel/softirq.c
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@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ void __init softirq_init(void)
 
 static int ksoftirqd(void * __bind_cpu)
 {
-	set_user_nice(current, 19);
+	set_user_nice(current, 15);
 	current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
 
 	set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);

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