Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: scheduler nice 19 versus 'idle' behavior / static low-priority scheduling | | From | Mike Galbraith <> | | Date | Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:38:04 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 14:12 -0800, Brian Rogers wrote: > Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 02:59 -0500, Nathanael Hoyle wrote: > > > >> I am running foldingathome under it at the moment, and it seems to be > >> improving the situation somewhat, but I still need/want to test with > >> Mike's referenced patches. > >> > > You will most definitely encounter evilness running SCHED_IDLE tasks in > > a kernel without the SCHED_IDLE fixes. > > > Speaking of SCHED_IDLE fixes, is > 6bc912b71b6f33b041cfde93ca3f019cbaa852bc going to be put into the next > stable 2.6.28 release? Without it on 2.6.28.2, I can still produce > minutes-long freezes with BOINC or other idle processes. > > With the above commit on top of 2.6.28.2 and also > cce7ade803699463ecc62a065ca522004f7ccb3d, the problem is solved, though > I assume cce7ad isn't actually required to fix that, and I can test that > if desired.
I think they both should go to stable, but dunno if they're headed that direction or not.
One way to find out, CCs added.
-Mike
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