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SubjectRe: [PATCH] sched: Fix adverse effects of NFS client on interactive response
Hi,

Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > /*
> > * Tasks that have marked their sleep as noninteractive get
> > * woken up without updating their sleep average. (i.e. their
> > * sleep is handled in a priority-neutral manner, no priority
> > * boost and no penalty.)
> > */
> >
> > This appears to be the only documentation for the TASK_NONINTERACTIVE
> > flag,

On 12/23/05, Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> I guess it makes to many assumptions about the reader's prior knowledge
> of the scheduler internals. I'll try to make it clearer.

FWIW, Ingo invented TASK_NONINTERACTIVE to fix a problem I had with
Wine. See the following threads for further discussion:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111729237700002&r=1&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111761183900001&r=1&w=2

Pekka
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