Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751316AbWAIUXN (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:23:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751315AbWAIUXN (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:23:13 -0500 Received: from 213-140-2-69.ip.fastwebnet.it ([213.140.2.69]:47491 "EHLO aa002msg.fastwebnet.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751316AbWAIUXL (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:23:11 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 21:23:27 +0100 From: Paolo Ornati To: Paolo Ornati Cc: Mike Galbraith , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Con Kolivas , Ingo Molnar , Nick Piggin , Peter Williams Subject: Re: [SCHED] wrong priority calc - SIMPLE test case Message-ID: <20060109212327.2e0ca6b7@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060109210035.3f6adafc@localhost> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20060102092903.00bde090@pop.gmx.net> <20060101123902.27a10798@localhost> <5.2.1.1.2.20051231162352.00bda610@pop.gmx.net> <5.2.1.1.2.20051231090255.00bede00@pop.gmx.net> <200512281027.00252.kernel@kolivas.org> <20051227190918.65c2abac@localhost> <20051227224846.6edcff88@localhost> <200512281027.00252.kernel@kolivas.org> <5.2.1.1.2.20051231090255.00bede00@pop.gmx.net> <5.2.1.1.2.20051231162352.00bda610@pop.gmx.net> <5.2.1.1.2.20060109162113.00ba9fd0@pop.gmx.net> <20060109210035.3f6adafc@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc1 (GTK+ 2.6.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 880 Lines: 23 On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 21:00:35 +0100 Paolo Ornati wrote: > I don't know how can "nicksched" keep transcode priority always to 40 > even when I'm running the DD test... I should retry and see. I was wrong... the interfering effect is here also with nicksched. The problem is that Linux is smarter than me --> sometimes I forget the effect of the disk-cache ;) For the DD test I always umount/(re)mount the partition where the BIGFILE is stored to discard the associated cache... but I've forgotten to do the same for the file that transcode is reading from ;) -- Paolo Ornati Linux 2.6.15-plugsched on x86_64 - 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/