On Mar 28, 2007, at 4:04 AM, <dsieger@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
> ok, gathering from what has been written so far:
>
> 1. Can we agree that autonice should go into SCHED_4BSD only?

Your question has 3 words too many :-)

But yes, if it lives on at all, it should be 4BSD only.

> 2. As there seem to be some good arguments for not using autonice at
>    all, what about making it a sysctl tunable for the 4BSD scheduler?

It's already a sysctl-tunable, and if it lives on at all, it should  
probably continue to be.  That said, I would also change the default  
to "disable autonice".

-- thorpej