Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030399AbWCUOR2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:17:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030400AbWCUOR2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:17:28 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:1683 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030399AbWCUOR0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:17:26 -0500 X-Authenticated: #14349625 Subject: Re: interactive task starvation From: Mike Galbraith To: Con Kolivas Cc: Willy Tarreau , Ingo Molnar , lkml , Andrew Morton , bugsplatter@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <200603220053.53595.kernel@kolivas.org> References: <1142592375.7895.43.camel@homer> <20060321125900.GA25943@w.ods.org> <1142947456.7807.53.camel@homer> <200603220053.53595.kernel@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:17:31 +0100 Message-Id: <1142950651.7807.95.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: 720 Lines: 18 On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 00:53 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > The yardstick for changes is now the speed of 'ls' scrolling in the console. > Where exactly are those extra cycles going I wonder? Do you think the > scheduler somehow makes the cpu idle doing nothing in that timespace? Clearly > that's not true, and userspace is making something spin unnecessarily, but > we're gonna fix that by modifying the scheduler.... sigh *Blink* Are you having a bad hair day?? -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/