From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To: "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Question about fair schedulers
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:36:35 -0700
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Alberto Gonzalez wrote:

> On Saturday 23 June 2007, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> > On Jun 22, 2007, at 18:07:15, Alberto Gonzalez wrote:

> > What this *actually* means is that you want the media player to have
> > higher priority than the DVD ripping program.  Ergo you should run
> > "nice +20 my_dvd_burner" or "nice +20 my_vorbis_encoder" under CFS or
> > other fair schedulers.
>
> Ok, that makes sense. The problem is that desktop users don't
> know about such
> things, so the ideal situation would be that the scheduler knows
> about it and
> does it for you.

I disagree. How could the scheduler know that you care more about the media
player than the DVD ripping program? Maybe you're just watching unimportant
stuff to waste time while anxiously waiting for the DVD rip to finish.

Why should the scheduler make assumptions about what's important to the
user? If the user has priorities, they should tell the scheduler.

DS


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