Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264067AbTHLJiL (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 05:38:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265069AbTHLJiK (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 05:38:10 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:10704 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264067AbTHLJiI (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 05:38:08 -0400 Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.2.20030812112325.01a06cb8@pop.gmx.net> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:42:16 +0200 To: Nick Piggin From: Mike Galbraith Subject: Re: [PATCH] O13int for interactivity Cc: Nick Piggin , rob@landley.net, Con Kolivas , linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Felipe Alfaro Solana In-Reply-To: <3F3894CB.3010200@cyberone.com.au> References: <3F389221.6080202@cyberone.com.au> <200308110248.09399.rob@landley.net> <200308050207.18096.kernel@kolivas.org> <200308052022.01377.kernel@kolivas.org> <3F2F87DA.7040103@cyberone.com.au> <200308110248.09399.rob@landley.net> <5.2.1.1.2.20030812075224.01988de8@pop.gmx.net> <3F389221.6080202@cyberone.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 600 Lines: 16 At 05:18 PM 8/12/2003 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: >And no, X isn't intentionally sleeping. Its being preempted which is >obviously not intentional. Right. Every time X wakes the gl thread, he'll lose the cpu. Once the gl thread passes X in priority, X is pretty much doomed. (hmm... sane [hard] backboost will probably prevent that) -Mike - 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/