Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759182AbYAKOFi (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:05:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759569AbYAKOFT (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:05:19 -0500 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:41082 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759369AbYAKOFS (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:05:18 -0500 Message-ID: <4787779B.1070100@davidnewall.com> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:35:15 +1030 From: David Newall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: righiandr@users.sourceforge.net CC: LKML , Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] per-task I/O throttling References: <47869FFE.1050000@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <47869FFE.1050000@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 441 Lines: 12 Andrea Righi wrote: > [I/O-intensive] processes can noticeably impact the system responsiveness > for some time and playing with tasks' priority is not always an > acceptable solution. > Why? -- 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/