Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271827AbTG2OMm (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:12:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271833AbTG2OMm (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:12:42 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:8721 "HELO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S271827AbTG2OK6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:10:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3F2682EF.2040702@techsource.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:21:35 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: Con Kolivas , linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] O10int for interactivity References: <200307280112.16043.kernel@kolivas.org> <200307281808.h6SI8C5k004439@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 811 Lines: 21 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > I'm guessing that the anticipatory scheduler is the culprit here. Soon as I figure > out the incantations to use the deadline scheduler, I'll report back.... > It would be unfortunate if AS and the interactivity scheduler were to conflict. Is there a way we can have them talk to each other and have AS boost some I/O requests for tasks which are marked as interactive? It would sacrifice some throughput for the sake of interactivity, which is what the interactivity patches do anyhow. This is a reasonable compromise. - 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/