Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751510AbWCUML0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:11:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751501AbWCUML0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:11:26 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:2020 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751510AbWCUMLZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:11:25 -0500 X-Authenticated: #14349625 Subject: Re: interactive task starvation From: Mike Galbraith To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Willy Tarreau , lkml , Andrew Morton , Con Kolivas , bugsplatter@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20060321111850.GA2776@elte.hu> References: <200603090036.49915.kernel@kolivas.org> <20060317090653.GC13387@elte.hu> <1142592375.7895.43.camel@homer> <1142615721.7841.15.camel@homer> <1142838553.8441.13.camel@homer> <20060321064723.GH21493@w.ods.org> <1142927498.7667.34.camel@homer> <20060321091353.GA25248@w.ods.org> <20060321091422.GA9207@elte.hu> <20060321111552.GA25651@w.ods.org> <20060321111850.GA2776@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:07:58 +0100 Message-Id: <1142942878.7807.9.camel@homer> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 848 Lines: 22 On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 12:18 +0100, 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 can make the knobs compile time so we don't see random behavior reports, but I don't think they can be totally eliminated. Would that be sufficient? If so, the numbers as delivered should be fine for desktop boxen I think. People who are building custom kernels can bend to fit as always. -Mike - 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/