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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:02:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> okay, here's a patch that merges Linus' "priority boost backmerging" and
> my CPU-hog-detection-improvement patches.

I was actually going to suggest making the CPU-hog detector _worse_, to 
see what the extreme behaviour of the "boost balancing" is. One of the 
things I would hope for is that the interactivity balancing would act as a 
damper on the CPU hug detector, and make it less important to get that one 
right in the first place.

		Linus

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