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diff --git a/system/schedtool/README b/system/schedtool/README index f040c5dc53..71a5c61752 100644 --- a/system/schedtool/README +++ b/system/schedtool/README @@ -1,13 +1,15 @@ Schedtool interfaces with the Linux CPU scheduler. -It allows the user to set and query the CPU-affinity and nice-levels of -processes, as well as all scheduling policies, like batch or real-time -(RR/FIFO) classes and their priorities. It can be used to avoid skipping -for A/V-applications, to lock processes onto certain CPUs on SMP/NUMA -systems, or to adjust nice-levels of lesser important jobs to maintain a -high amount of interactive responsiveness under high load. +It allows the user to set and query the CPU-affinity and nice-levels +of processes, as well as all scheduling policies, like batch or +real-time (RR/FIFO) classes and their priorities. It can be used to +avoid skipping for A/V-applications, to lock processes onto certain +CPUs on SMP/NUMA systems, or to adjust nice-levels of lesser important +jobs to maintain a high amount of interactive responsiveness under +high load. -All special scheduling classes of the -ck kernel patchset are also supported. +All special scheduling classes of the -ck kernel patchset are also +supported. Certain modes (as of this writing: SCHED_IDLEPRIO and SCHED_ISO) need a patched kernel; see the INSTALL file for details. |