Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270189AbTGZQhp (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 12:37:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270412AbTGZQhp (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 12:37:45 -0400 Received: from smtp.terra.es ([213.4.129.129]:56632 "EHLO tsmtp4.mail.isp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270189AbTGZQho convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 12:37:44 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 18:52:56 +0200 From: Diego Calleja =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Garc=EDa?= To: Daniel Phillips Cc: ed.sweetman@wmich.edu, eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel@kolivas.org Subject: Re: Ingo Molnar and Con Kolivas 2.6 scheduler patches Message-Id: <20030726185256.04a8c88f.diegocg@teleline.es> In-Reply-To: <200307271046.30318.phillips@arcor.de> References: <1059211833.576.13.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> <20030726101015.GA3922@eugeneteo.net> <3F2264DF.7060306@wmich.edu> <200307271046.30318.phillips@arcor.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1050 Lines: 18 El Sun, 27 Jul 2003 10:46:30 -0500 Daniel Phillips escribi?: > Audio players fall into a special category of application, the kind where it's > not unreasonable to change the code around to take advantage of new kernel > features to make them work better. Remember this word: audiophile. An > audiophile will do whatever it takes to attain more perfect reproduction. > Furthermore, where goes the audophile, soon follows the regular user. Just > go into a stereo store if you need convincing about that. I wonder if X falls in this category too; the X behaviour should be as good as the scheduler allows it; but for a "desktop user" X behaviour should be reponsive *always* (ie: it should have priority even if it doesn't need it) and i wonder if that should be changed too. - 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/