From a970e1f920e7972ca5654dc8da7d1f6e4006d0ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 16:15:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] sched.7: In the kernel source SCHED_OTHER is actually called SCHED_NORMAL Reported-by: Eugene Syromyatnikov Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/sched.7 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/man7/sched.7 b/man7/sched.7 index c27154827..6ddc53bd0 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