Feature Request – pool proirity

would it be possible to assign a priority to pools

say i have a machine called RENDER_ONE and it is in the following pools:

project_A
Project_B
Entire_farm

I want to render all jobs for Project_A in preference to Jobs in Project_B pool and then with least priority jobs in the entire_farm pool.

currently the only priority is job priority so a job submitted to entire farm at 100% would render on RENDER_1 before jobs submitted to projec_A and Project_B pools at 60 % priority.

If we could assign a weighting or priority to a given pool then we could ensure that Jobs submitted to Project_A and Project_B always rendered on our machine RENDER_1 before jobs submitted to the entire farm whatever the job priority of the entire farm job.

There is another benefit to this, if I split the entire farm into 2 pools Project_A and Project_B and then submitted a job to Project_A and a Job to Project_B both jobs render in parallel but if the job for project_A finishes before the job from Project_B the second job will only render on half the farm while the project_A pool sits Idle. If we had pool Priority running and submitted the project_B job to the entire_farm pool,then when the project_A job finished the project_B job runing on the entire farm would pick up the available Project_A processors this gives better utilization of resource and faster render times.

Some of our pools are set up by job type say shake or after effects so we would need a switch to say this pool is exclusive never render jobs submitted to other pools on this pool.

with both pool and job priority we can be much more granular about which jobs get rendered in which order and have much better control of the farm and its throughput.