Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Dec 2011 17:04:45 -0500 | From | Mathieu Desnoyers <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 09/11] sched: export task_prio to GPL modules |
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* Peter Zijlstra (peterz@infradead.org) wrote: > On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 16:41 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > LTTng needs this symbol to prepend the current task dynamic priority > > value to events (optional context information). > > I absolutely detest exporting such stuff. It propagates the idea that > task prio actually means something. Also, modules really shouldn't care.
People debugging their SCHED_FIFO/SCHED_RR applications, as well as users of priority-inheritance futexes, may happen to find this information extremely useful.
Just saying...
Mathieu
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