Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:48:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:48:52 -0500 Received: from mx1.elte.hu ([157.181.1.137]:29112 "HELO mx1.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:48:51 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 18:58:52 +0100 (CET) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: Ingo Molnar To: Alan Cox Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [patch] "HT scheduler", sched-2.5.63-B3 In-Reply-To: <1046976597.17715.93.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 925 Lines: 25 On 6 Mar 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 17:11, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > X is special. Especially in Andrew's wild-window-dragging experiment X is > > a pure CPU-bound task that just eats CPU cycles no end. There _only_ thing > > that makes it special is that there's a human looking at the output of the > > X client. This is information that is simply not available to the kernel. > > Just like a streaming video server > Just like a 3D game using DRI > > X isnt special at all. [...] i'm convinced we are talking about the same thing. My argument was that X is special _only_ because humans are looking at it. Ie. it's not special at all to the kernel. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/