Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271141AbTHLVLx (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 17:11:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271148AbTHLVLx (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 17:11:53 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:10253 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271141AbTHLVLo (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 17:11:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:11:37 -0700 From: Mike Fedyk To: Mike Galbraith Cc: Nick Piggin , rob@landley.net, Con Kolivas , linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Felipe Alfaro Solana Subject: Re: [PATCH] O13int for interactivity Message-ID: <20030812211137.GH1027@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: Mike Galbraith , Nick Piggin , rob@landley.net, Con Kolivas , linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Felipe Alfaro Solana 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> <5.2.1.1.2.20030812112325.01a06cb8@pop.gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20030812112325.01a06cb8@pop.gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 712 Lines: 16 On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:42:16AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > 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) Isn't 2.4 doing exactly that for pipes and such? - 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/