Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265237AbTFRQhm (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:37:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265167AbTFRQhm (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:37:42 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:19625 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265234AbTFRQhd (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:37:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:51:24 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Felipe Alfaro Solana Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, LKML Subject: Re: O(1) scheduler starvation Message-ID: <20030618165124.GJ26348@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Felipe Alfaro Solana , davidm@hpl.hp.com, LKML References: <1055922807.585.5.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1055922807.585.5.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 832 Lines: 19 On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:53:28AM +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > I'm running 2.5.72-mm1 with Mike Galbraith's scheduler patches and a > small patch I made myself to improve interactivity (mainly, to stop XMMS > from skipping by adjusting some scheduler parameters). > What's going on here? Is the previous article outdated, or have the > starvation problems been definitively fixed? The MAX_TIMESLICE change is inappropriate. There's papering over broken algorithms, and then there's getting really blatant about it -- and MAX_TIMESLICE going from 200 -> 20 is blatant. -- wli - 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/