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    SubjectRe: RSDL v0.31
    FromNicholas Miell <>
    DateFri, 16 Mar 2007 21:24:03 -0700
    On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 23:30 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
    > On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 08:13 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
    > > On Saturday 17 March 2007 02:34, Mike Galbraith wrote:
    > > > On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 00:40 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
    > > > > Here are full patches for rsdl 0.31 for various base kernels. A full
    > > > > announce with a fresh -mm series will follow...
    > > > >
    > > > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20.3-rsdl-0.31.patch
    > > > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc3-sched-rsdl-0.
    > > > >31.patch
    > > > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc3-mm2-rsdl-0.31
    > > > >.patch
    > > >
    > > > It still has trouble with the x/gforce vs two niced encoders scenario.
    > > > The previously reported choppiness is still present.
    > > >
    > > > I suspect that x/gforce landing in the expired array is the trouble, and
    > > > that this will never be smooth without some kind of exemption.  I added
    > > > some targeted unfairness to .30, and it didn't help much at all.
    > > >
    > > > Priorities going all the way to 1 were a surprise.
    > > 
    > > It wasn't going to change that case without renicing X.
    > 
    > Con.  You are trying to wedge a fair scheduler into an environment where
    > totally fair simply can not possibly function.
    > 
    > If this is your final answer to the problem space, I am done testing,
    > and as far as _I_ am concerned, your scheduler is an utter failure.
    > 
    
    Sorry, I haven't really been following this thread and now I'm confused.
    
    You're saying that it's somehow the scheduler's fault that X isn't
    running with a high enough priority?
    
    -- 
    Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
    
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