Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267978AbTGLQVr (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 12:21:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267874AbTGLQVa (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 12:21:30 -0400 Received: from RJ161046.user.veloxzone.com.br ([200.149.161.46]:55027 "EHLO mf.dnsalias.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265779AbTGLQTL (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 12:19:11 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch] SCHED_SOFTRR linux scheduler policy ... From: Miguel Freitas To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Davide Libenzi , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030712162029.GE9547@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <1058017391.1197.24.camel@mf> <20030712154942.GB9547@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <20030712162029.GE9547@mail.jlokier.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-6) Date: 12 Jul 2003 13:41:04 -0300 Message-Id: <1058028064.1196.111.camel@mf> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 851 Lines: 23 On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 13:20, Jamie Lokier wrote: > I'm wondering what happens if the tasks are both good, early to bed > without a fuss. Neither runs their entire timeslice. > > Or to illustrate: say xine uses 10% of my CPU. What happens when I > open 11 xine windows? well of course 110% is more than what you have of resources and xine would have to drop frames to keep it up... :) anyway, if xine uses 10% of your CPU, that time is mostly likely spent at the decoder thread. the only thread that i would set to use SOFTRR would be the output thread, which does use very like CPU. regards, Miguel - 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/