Re: [PATCH] Add Documentation for FAIR_USER_SCHED sysfs files

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> * 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.

unless Greg wants to push this via the sysfs git tree?

	Ingo
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