Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Mar 2003 15:40:21 -0800 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] "HT scheduler", sched-2.5.63-B3 |
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> At first I strongly dissaproved of the kernel's timeslice adjustment by > interactivity estimation; policy belongs in userland, I thought. But the
That seems to be one of the most dramatically overused misguided statements bandied about in Linux at the moment, with respect to just about every subsystem, and it's really starting to get annoying.
Yes, you should be able to frig with policy decisions from userspace, if you really want to BUT the kernel should do something pretty sane by default without user intervention. It's exactly the same mistake apps keep making, and why half of them are unusable.
M.
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