Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271148AbTHCLgt (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 07:36:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271147AbTHCLgs (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 07:36:48 -0400 Received: from c210-49-248-224.thoms1.vic.optusnet.com.au ([210.49.248.224]:34439 "EHLO mail.kolivas.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271148AbTHCLgr (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 07:36:47 -0400 Message-ID: <1059910601.3f2cf3c908043@kolivas.org> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 21:36:41 +1000 From: Con Kolivas To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton , Felipe Alfaro Solana Subject: Re: [PATCH] O12.2int for interactivity References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 836 Lines: 22 Quoting Ingo Molnar : > > 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? ] Ooh hang on I've not tried lots of copies of thud.c at once. Can't try for a little while though. Con - 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/