Re: [PATCH] A nicer nice scheduling

[Giuliano Pochini]

Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> please consider including this patch in the main kernel.
> It was proposed on 11/04/2001 by Rik van Riel
> ([test-PATCH] Re: [QUESTION] 2.4.x nice level)
> 
> This patch has been working great for me, I applied it to
> every new kernel out.
> 
> Without this patch, a nice=19 busy-looping process is given
> 15% of CPU cycles when there is a busy-looping nice=0 process. 
> [...]

I think it's simpler to change NICE_TO_TICKS() macro in sched.c

Bye.