The patch titled ksm: change ksm nice level to be 5 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ksm-change-ksm-nice-level-to-be-5.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ksm: change ksm nice level to be 5 From: Izik Eidus <ieidus@xxxxxxxxxx> ksm should try not to disturb other tasks as much as possible. Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@xxxxxx> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/ksm.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/ksm.c~ksm-change-ksm-nice-level-to-be-5 mm/ksm.c --- a/mm/ksm.c~ksm-change-ksm-nice-level-to-be-5 +++ a/mm/ksm.c @@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ static void ksm_do_scan(unsigned int sca static int ksm_scan_thread(void *nothing) { - set_user_nice(current, 0); + set_user_nice(current, 5); while (!kthread_should_stop()) { if (ksm_run & KSM_RUN_MERGE) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ieidus@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch ksm-add-mmu_notifier-set_pte_at_notify.patch ksm-first-tidy-up-madvise_vma.patch ksm-define-madv_mergeable-and-madv_unmergeable.patch ksm-the-mm-interface-to-ksm.patch ksm-no-debug-in-page_dup_rmap.patch ksm-identify-pageksm-pages.patch ksm-kernel-samepage-merging.patch ksm-prevent-mremap-move-poisoning.patch ksm-change-copyright-message.patch ksm-change-ksm-nice-level-to-be-5.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