The patch titled sched: don't renice kernel threads has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was sched-dont-renice-kernel-threads.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: sched: don't renice kernel threads From: Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx> The practice of renicing kernel threads to negative nice values is of questionable benefit at best, and at worst leads to larger latencies when kernel threads are busy on behalf of other tasks. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/workqueue.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/workqueue.c~sched-dont-renice-kernel-threads kernel/workqueue.c --- a/kernel/workqueue.c~sched-dont-renice-kernel-threads +++ a/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -294,7 +294,6 @@ static int worker_thread(void *__cwq) if (!cwq->wq->freezeable) current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE; - set_user_nice(current, -5); /* * We inherited MPOL_INTERLEAVE from the booting kernel. * Set MPOL_DEFAULT to insure node local allocations. _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx are sched-fix-idle-load-balancing-in-softirqd-context-fix.patch sched-dont-renice-kernel-threads.patch sched-implement-rsdl-cpu-scheduler.patch sched-implement-rsdl-cpu-scheduler-accounting-fixes.patch sched-document-rsdl-cpu-scheduler.patch sched-add-above-background-load-function.patch mm-implement-swap-prefetching.patch swap-prefetch-avoid-repeating-entry.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html