Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932120AbWABMJc (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2006 07:09:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932200AbWABMJc (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2006 07:09:32 -0500 Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.192]:8140 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932120AbWABMJb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2006 07:09:31 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=j/AzEhZjTXHNx0HlEA7+7bKxScDpnPjYZE0oV3kGFGD8T8iyoS8RwzT85eqgjRB+soSiTknvZ5MScyOIRaAwra4zpFUcVTfr3kY0PdOKLBXlvU30vXgHu8U3SDJL7aTdzS9TBva5kcueRhctS6mjLFV2pdOiwoeH28IUd8r+41o= Message-ID: <84144f020601020409j3013f7e7w8c242bbb488f013@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 14:09:29 +0200 From: Pekka Enberg To: Peter Williams Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Fix adverse effects of NFS client on interactive response Cc: Trond Myklebust , Kyle Moffett , Ingo Molnar , Con Kolivas , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <43ABFD47.3080000@bigpond.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <43A8EF87.1080108@bigpond.net.au> <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> <43ABD639.2060200@bigpond.net.au> <1135342262.8167.143.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <43ABFD47.3080000@bigpond.net.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1123 Lines: 29 Hi, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > /* > > * Tasks that have marked their sleep as noninteractive get > > * woken up without updating their sleep average. (i.e. their > > * sleep is handled in a priority-neutral manner, no priority > > * boost and no penalty.) > > */ > > > > This appears to be the only documentation for the TASK_NONINTERACTIVE > > flag, On 12/23/05, Peter Williams wrote: > I guess it makes to many assumptions about the reader's prior knowledge > of the scheduler internals. I'll try to make it clearer. FWIW, Ingo invented TASK_NONINTERACTIVE to fix a problem I had with Wine. See the following threads for further discussion: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111729237700002&r=1&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111761183900001&r=1&w=2 Pekka - 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/