[PATCH] sched: add new SCHED_BATCH policy
Add a new SCHED_BATCH (3) scheduling policy: such tasks are presumed
CPU-intensive, and will acquire a constant +5 priority level penalty. Such
policy is nice for workloads that are non-interactive, but which do not
want to give up their nice levels. The policy is also useful for workloads
that want a deterministic scheduling policy without interactivity causing
extra preemptions (between that workload's tasks).
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index f8e609f..7fb541c 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -244,7 +244,9 @@
/* Set the exit signal to SIGCHLD so we signal init on exit */
current->exit_signal = SIGCHLD;
- if ((current->policy == SCHED_NORMAL) && (task_nice(current) < 0))
+ if ((current->policy == SCHED_NORMAL ||
+ current->policy == SCHED_BATCH)
+ && (task_nice(current) < 0))
set_user_nice(current, 0);
/* cpus_allowed? */
/* rt_priority? */