Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030604AbVLWTE1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:04:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030605AbVLWTE1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:04:27 -0500 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:42708 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030604AbVLWTE0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:04:26 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Fix adverse effects of NFS client on interactive response From: Lee Revell To: Trond Myklebust Cc: Peter Williams , Kyle Moffett , Ingo Molnar , Con Kolivas , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1135330757.8167.44.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> References: <43A8EF87.1080108@bigpond.net.au> <1135145341.7910.17.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <43A8F714.4020406@bigpond.net.au> <1135171280.7958.16.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <962C9716-6F84-477B-8B2A-FA771C21CDE8@mac.com> <1135172453.7958.26.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <43AA0EEA.8070205@bigpond.net.au> <1135289282.9769.2.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <43AB29B8.7050204@bigpond.net.au> <1135292364.9769.58.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1135297525.3685.57.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <43AB69B8.4080707@bigpond.net.au> <1135330757.8167.44.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:07:01 -0500 Message-Id: <1135364822.22177.13.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 807 Lines: 22 On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 10:39 +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote: > No! This is not the same thing at all. > > You are asking the coder to provide a policy judgement as to whether > or > not the users might care. > > As far as I'm concerned, other users' MP3 player, X processes, and > keyboard response times can rot in hell whenever I'm busy writing out > data at full blast. I don't give a rats arse about user interactivity, > because my priority is to see the batch jobs complete. > By your logic it's also broken to use cond_resched() in filesystem code. Lee - 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/