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authorJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>2009-06-12 10:02:03 -0500
committerJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>2009-06-12 10:02:03 -0500
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[SCSI] Merge branch 'linus'
Conflicts: drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c fixed up conflict between req->data_len accessors and mptsas driver updates. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ Here is the list of current tracers that may be configured.
Function call tracer to trace all kernel functions.
- "function_graph_tracer"
+ "function_graph"
Similar to the function tracer except that the
function tracer probes the functions on their entry
@@ -518,9 +518,18 @@ priority with zero (0) being the highest priority and the nice
values starting at 100 (nice -20). Below is a quick chart to map
the kernel priority to user land priorities.
- Kernel priority: 0 to 99 ==> user RT priority 99 to 0
- Kernel priority: 100 to 139 ==> user nice -20 to 19
- Kernel priority: 140 ==> idle task priority
+ Kernel Space User Space
+ ===============================================================
+ 0(high) to 98(low) user RT priority 99(high) to 1(low)
+ with SCHED_RR or SCHED_FIFO
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------
+ 99 sched_priority is not used in scheduling
+ decisions(it must be specified as 0)
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------
+ 100(high) to 139(low) user nice -20(high) to 19(low)
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------
+ 140 idle task priority
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------
The task states are: