Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271153AbTHCLbU (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 07:31:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271158AbTHCLbU (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 07:31:20 -0400 Received: from mx1.elte.hu ([157.181.1.137]:55444 "EHLO mx1.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271153AbTHCLbQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 07:31:16 -0400 Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 13:25:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: Ingo Molnar To: Con Kolivas Cc: linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton , Felipe Alfaro Solana Subject: Re: [PATCH] O12.2int for interactivity In-Reply-To: <200308032014.00986.kernel@kolivas.org> Message-ID: 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: 681 Lines: 18 On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Con Kolivas wrote: > Reverted Ingo's EXPIRED_STARVING definition; it was making interactive > tasks expire faster as cpu load increased. hm, that bit was needed for fairness, otherwise 'interactive' tasks can monopolize the CPU. [ Have you tried lots of copies of thud.c (and Davide's irman2 with the most evil settings), do they still produce no starvation with this bit restored to the original logic? ] Ingo - 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/