From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [2.6.16-rc6 patch] remove sleep_avg multiplier
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:36:08 +1100
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> On Tuesday 14 March 2006 23:24, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > The very
> > code responsible for good interbench numbers is also responsible for
> > starvation problems.  It's the long sleep logic.  That logic makes my
> > box suck rocks under thud and irman2.

Oh and I do appreciate that an ultimately interactive design may well be also 
ultimately exploitable. Interbench never claimed to test for exploits.

Cheers,
Con
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