Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932501AbVL1IAv (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:00:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932502AbVL1IAv (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:00:51 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:10666 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932501AbVL1IAu (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:00:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:00:29 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Peter Williams Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Con Kolivas , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC] CPU scheduler: Simplified interactive bonus mechanism Message-ID: <20051228080029.GA5641@elte.hu> References: <43B22FBA.5040008@bigpond.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43B22FBA.5040008@bigpond.net.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.9 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.9 required=5.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -2.8 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts 1.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 821 Lines: 19 * Peter Williams wrote: > This patch implements a prototype version of a simplified interactive > bonus mechanism. The mechanism does not attempt to identify > interactive tasks and give them a bonus (like the current mechanism > does) but instead attacks the problem that the bonuses are supposed to > fix, unacceptable interactive latency, directly. i think we could give this one a workout in -mm, to see the actual effects. Would you mind to merge this to -mm's scheduler queue, to right after sched-add-sched_batch-policy.patch? 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/