Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030365AbWCULyY (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:54:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030367AbWCULyY (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:54:24 -0500 Received: from mail17.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.198]:30093 "EHLO mail17.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030365AbWCULyX (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:54:23 -0500 From: Con Kolivas To: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: interactive task starvation Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:53:02 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Willy Tarreau , Mike Galbraith , lkml , Andrew Morton , bugsplatter@gmail.com References: <200603090036.49915.kernel@kolivas.org> <20060321111552.GA25651@w.ods.org> <20060321111850.GA2776@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20060321111850.GA2776@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603212253.03637.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 790 Lines: 18 On Tuesday 21 March 2006 22:18, Ingo Molnar wrote: > great work by Mike! One detail: i'd like there to be just one default > throttling value, i.e. no grace_g tunables [so that we have just one > default scheduler behavior]. Is the default grace_g[12] setting good > enough for your workload? I agree. If anything is required, a simple on/off tunable makes much more sense. Much like I suggested ages ago with an "interactive" switch which was rather unpopular when I first suggested it. Perhaps my marketing was wrong. Oh well. Cheers, Con - 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/