Re: [PATCH] Add Documentation for FAIR_USER_SCHED sysfs files

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Dec 12 2007 - 04:59:19 EST



* Dhaval Giani <dhaval@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Hm, how about describing the units here? Can you put "10" in each
> > file and everyone will get the same share? 100? 1? 1024 seems
> > like an odd "share" number. Unless there is some other document you
> > wish to refer people to do help describe these values?
>
> It is proportional. That is, if two users have same value for shares,
> they will get equal bandwidth on the CPU. If they are in the ratio
> 1:2, then they will share it in that ratio. I've updated the patch for
> this. Hope it is clearer.

thanks, applied.

Ingo
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