Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Regression seen for patch "sched:dont decrease idle sleep avg" | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Wed, 17 May 2006 11:49:23 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 18:23 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> There is a ceiling to the priority beyond which tasks that only ever sleep > for very long periods cannot surpass.
(Hmm. The intent is more clear, ie reserve the top for low latency tasks,... but that sounds a bit like xmms protection.)
The main problem I see with this ceiling, solely from the interactivity viewpoint, is that interactive tasks which have started burning cpu and/or freshly forked interactive tasks land in the same spot. Thud.c demonstrates this problem quite well. You don't want a few copies of thud in the same queue with your interactive task, much less above it if it's used enough cpu to drop a notch or two. Much pain ensues.
-Mike
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