Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Mar 2003 18:58:52 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] "HT scheduler", sched-2.5.63-B3 |
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On 6 Mar 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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. [...]
i'm convinced we are talking about the same thing. My argument was that X is special _only_ because humans are looking at it. Ie. it's not special at all to the kernel.
Ingo
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