Good questions. As far as the "why is this an improvement over just nicing" I found this link elsewhere in this thread: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=1289

Good questions. As far as the "why is this an improvement over just nicing" I found this link elsewhere in this thread: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128991621119292&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128991621119292&w... It includes this discussion: No, it won't. The target audience is those folks who don't _do_ the configuration they _could_ do, folks who don't use SCHED_IDLE or nice, or the power available through userspace cgroup tools.. folks who expect their box to "just work", out of the box.