Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] "HT scheduler", sched-2.5.63-B3 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 06 Mar 2003 18:49:57 +0000 |
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On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 17:11, Ingo Molnar wrote: > X is special. Especially in Andrew's wild-window-dragging experiment X is > a pure CPU-bound task that just eats CPU cycles no end. There _only_ thing > that makes it special is that there's a human looking at the output of the > X client. This is information that is simply not available to the kernel.
Just like a streaming video server Just like a 3D game using DRI
X isnt special at all. Research OS people have done stuff like time transfers but I've not seen that in a production OS. In that situation an interactive task blocking on a server hands on some of its interactiveness to whoever services the request.
Thats not a trivial Linux addition however
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