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From: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling•org>
To: Ajay Jain <ajay050@gmail•com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Linux Priority Levels
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:22:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9294.1268713343@neuling.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b92b327b1003152106l4027ae6djb238fa5cdcd29810@mail.gmail.com>

> I need a deeper understanding of priorities of linux processes and
> threads, especially on Linux PPC. I have done some good reading, but
> found no material to be complete and therefore I am raising a few
> questions below.
> 
> 1) In Linux processes have a static priority level 0, with nice values
> -20 to +19. Then it has RT priority levels 1 - 99. My question is, do
> the nice values apply to all processes or do they apply only to
> priority 0?
> 
> 2) How many total priority levels does the kernel have? On one hand,
> -20 is the highest priority, on the other hand +99 is the highest. How
> do these values converge?
> 
> Please help me to answer these and depending on the reply I would
> shoot more questions. In case you have a comprehensive reading
> material to refer, please advise.

man sched_setscheduler has a good description of these levels and how RT
and non RT processes interact.

Mikey

      reply	other threads:[~2010-03-16  4:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-16  4:06 Linux Priority Levels Ajay Jain
2010-03-16  4:22 ` Michael Neuling [this message]

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