Re: [PATCH] Add Documentation for FAIR_USER_SCHED sysfs files

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Dec 14 2007 - 17:43:50 EST


On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:16:45AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * 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?

Sure, I can do that, what's one more patch in my tree? :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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