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SCHED_FIFO (or any static priority scheduler) is a broken scheduler model; it is fundamentally incapable of resource management, the one thing an OS is actually supposed to do. It is impossible to compose static priority workloads. One cannot take two well designed and functional static priority workloads and mash them together and still expect them to work. Therefore it doesn't make sense to expose the priority field; the kernel is fundamentally incapable of setting a sensible value, it needs systems knowledge that it doesn't have. Take away sched_setschedule() / sched_setattr() from modules and replace them with: - sched_set_fifo(p); create a FIFO task (at prio 50) - sched_set_fifo_low(p); create a task higher than NORMAL, which ends up being a FIFO task at prio 1. - sched_set_normal(p, nice); (re)set the task to normal This stops the proliferation of randomly chosen, and irrelevant, FIFO priorities that dont't really mean anything anyway. The system administrator/integrator, whoever has insight into the actual system design and requirements (userspace) can set-up appropriate priorities if and when needed. Cc: airlied@redhat.com Cc: alexander.deucher@amd.com Cc: awalls@md.metrocast.net Cc: axboe@kernel.dk Cc: broonie@kernel.org Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Cc: hverkuil@xs4all.nl Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org Cc: nico@fluxnic.net Cc: paulmck@kernel.org Cc: rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com Cc: rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk Cc: sudeep.holla@arm.com Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: ulf.hansson@linaro.org Cc: wim@linux-watchdog.org Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.