On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 05:36:21PM +0100, Michal Mazurek wrote: > > p_usrpri and p_priority will go away, so userland utilities like 'ps' > will need to be changed. >
AFAIU, this would hurt interactive programs (audio, players, games, etc). Currently i/o bound processes wake up with increased priority and steal the cpu from cpu-bound processes. Removing p_priority would break this mechanism.
