Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265008AbTGGPJX (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 11:09:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265016AbTGGPJX (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 11:09:23 -0400 Received: from mail.jlokier.co.uk ([81.29.64.88]:31372 "EHLO mail.jlokier.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265008AbTGGPJW (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 11:09:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 16:23:39 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Davide Libenzi Cc: Mel Gorman , Daniel Phillips , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management List Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm1 Message-ID: <20030707152339.GA9669@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <20030703023714.55d13934.akpm@osdl.org> <200307060414.34827.phillips@arcor.de> <200307071424.06393.phillips@arcor.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 533 Lines: 15 Davide Libenzi wrote: > The scheduler has to work w/out external input, period. Can you justify this? It strikes me that a music player's thread which requests a special music-playing scheduling hint is not unreasonable, if that actually works and scheduler heuristics do not. -- Jamie - 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/