Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Aug 2003 08:55:20 +0200 | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] O13int for interactivity |
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At 02:11 PM 8/12/2003 -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: >On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:42:16AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > At 05:18 PM 8/12/2003 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > >And no, X isn't intentionally sleeping. Its being preempted which is > > >obviously not intentional. > > > > Right. Every time X wakes the gl thread, he'll lose the cpu. Once the gl > > thread passes X in priority, X is pretty much doomed. (hmm... sane [hard] > > backboost will probably prevent that) > >Isn't 2.4 doing exactly that for pipes and such?
At a glance, preemption appears to be primarily a matter of timeslice in 2.4.
-Mike
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