Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267462AbTGHPSn (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:18:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267464AbTGHPSn (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:18:43 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([208.129.208.51]:24708 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267462AbTGHPRe (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:17:34 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:24:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@bigblue.dev.mcafeelabs.com To: Nick Piggin cc: Daniel Phillips , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm1 In-Reply-To: <3F0A8C5C.1070602@cyberone.com.au> Message-ID: References: <20030703023714.55d13934.akpm@osdl.org> <200307080213.53203.phillips@arcor.de> <200307080307.18018.phillips@arcor.de> <3F0A8C5C.1070602@cyberone.com.au> 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: 973 Lines: 23 On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Nick Piggin wrote: > I agree some people have some inflated ideas about a desktop workload, > but I'd just point out that if your mp3 player was using say 2% CPU, > it should be able to preempt the make soon after it becomes runnable, > and not have to wait at the end of the queue. It would become a CPU > hog itself if you had 48 other processes running though. This is clearly true, actually even more since player usually suck way less than 2% of the CPU. If no video is involved, they simply do a write() to /dev/dsp and then they sync by calling GETOSPACE and sleeping in the "hope" to be wake up almost in time. I never said that the scheduler should not be fixed. It definitely has to. - Davide - 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/