What's the priority of the idle task?

Hi, (Please let me ask my Stackexchange question [1] here as well in the hope of getting an answer from this board of dedicated experts.) As explained by several (if somewhat old) articles [2,3,4], the Linux idle task (PID=0, one per CPU) is run when there are no other tasks to run. To get the sc

Re: What's the priority of the idle task?

Till Smejkal writes: > [...] Hence, the idle task is not managed by CFS and accordingly > doesn't have any nice value or priority (or at least it is not > important nowadays). Thanks for your very to-the-point answer! I'm still disturbed by the above statement, though, because not being managed