Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:37:46 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cfq + io priorities |
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On Mon, Nov 10 2003, P@draigBrady.com wrote: > Albert Cahalan wrote: > >Besides, the kernel load average was changed to > >include processes waiting for IO. It just plain > >makes sense to mix CPU usage with IO usage by > >default. Wanting different niceness for CPU > >and IO is a really unusual thing. > > I strongly agree. Of course it would be > nice/necessary to have seperate nice values, > but setting the global one should set the > underlying ones (cpu, disk, ...) also.
Global one? nice is CPU in Linux, period. ionice is io priority. I'm not going to change this. So Albert and you can agree as much as you want, unless you have some heavier arguments it's not going to help one bit.
-- Jens Axboe
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