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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2018-10-14 16:15:50 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2018-10-14 16:15:50 +0200
commita970e1f920e7972ca5654dc8da7d1f6e4006d0ab (patch)
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parent49d83458f341c51db45ca30bcd6b35e8189e18d3 (diff)
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sched.7: In the kernel source SCHED_OTHER is actually called SCHED_NORMAL
Reported-by: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man7/sched.7 b/man7/sched.7
index c271548270..6ddc53bd0f 100644
--- a/man7/sched.7
+++ b/man7/sched.7
@@ -406,6 +406,11 @@ The dynamic priority is based on the nice value (see below)
and is increased for each time quantum the thread is ready to run,
but denied to run by the scheduler.
This ensures fair progress among all \fBSCHED_OTHER\fP threads.
+.PP
+In the Linux kernel source code, the
+.B SCHED_OTHER
+policy is actually named
+.BR SCHED_NORMAL .
.\"
.SS The nice value
The nice value is an attribute