Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030297AbWCURwJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:52:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030301AbWCURwJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:52:09 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:52145 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030297AbWCURwI (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:52:08 -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: <200603220220.11368.kernel@kolivas.org> References: <200603090036.49915.kernel@kolivas.org> <1142949690.7807.80.camel@homer> <200603220117.54822.kernel@kolivas.org> <200603220220.11368.kernel@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:51:59 +0100 Message-Id: <1142963519.10569.27.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: 746 Lines: 19 On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 02:20 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Wednesday 22 March 2006 01:17, Con Kolivas wrote: > > I actually believe the same effect can be had by a tiny > > modification to enable/disable the estimator anyway. > > Just for argument's sake it would look something like this. That won't have the same effect. What you disabled isn't only about interactivity. It's also about preemption, throughput and fairness. -Mike (we now interrupt this thread for an evening of real life;) - 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/