Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268654AbTGIWW5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:22:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268655AbTGIWW5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:22:57 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([208.129.208.51]:30863 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268654AbTGIWWz (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:22:55 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:29:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@bigblue.dev.mcafeelabs.com To: Jamie Lokier cc: Daniel Phillips , Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management List Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm1 In-Reply-To: <20030709222426.GA24923@mail.jlokier.co.uk> Message-ID: References: <20030703023714.55d13934.akpm@osdl.org> <20030707193628.GA10836@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <200307082027.13857.phillips@arcor.de> <20030709222426.GA24923@mail.jlokier.co.uk> 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: 786 Lines: 20 On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Indeed. But maybe true (bounded CPU) realtime, reliable, would more > accurately reflect what the user actually wants for some apps? Hopefully I'll have a couple of hours free to code and test the SCHED_SOFTRR idea ;) It's hard to push for a new POSIX definition though :) Looking at recent posts it seems that this is not the only problem though. It seems interactivity lowered in the latest versions of the scheduler. The good news is that Ingo is back on Earth and he'll fix it :) - 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/