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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Minor scheduler fix to get rid of skipping in xmms
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On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 02:18, Andrew Morton wrote:

> We cannot just jam all this code into Linus's tree while crossing our
> fingers and hoping that something will turn up to fix this problem.
> Because we don't know what causes it, nor whether we even _can_ fix it.

Actually, this would be my argument _for_ Nick's approach. It is simple
and we all understand it.

There are a _lot_ of scheduler changes in 2.6-mm, and who knows which
ones are an improvement, a detriment, and a noop? It is like bandaids
on top of bandaids, to fix corner cases.

And we _do_ know what causes the problem: the interactivity estimator
misestimates interactivity. What we do not know is what fixes it.

Robert Love


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