Karel Zak schrieb: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 02:38:32AM +0100, Jakob Unterwurzacher wrote: >> Allow users to set the "none" class on processes. Using the >> none class has the distict advantage that the io priority >> is inherited from the cpu nice level. Update the man page >> to reflect the change. > > Applied with small change, thanks. > Thanks for digging this out! >> Don't print the priority (there is none / it is always 0) >> on a class "none" process. > > This is not true. For example on my laptop: > > $ ionice > none: prio 4 Right, it may be set to something. But it doesn't have any meaning - it's ignored by the scheduler. (the scheduler does the "io_priority = (cpu_nice + 20) / 5" thing, i verified this in the kernel source: http://tomoyo.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/lxr/source/block/cfq-iosched.c#L1579 ) IMO we shouldn't display it (we don't for the idle class either), but this is really a cosmetic issue. Best Regards, Jakob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
