Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Minor scheduler fix to get rid of skipping in xmms | From | Robert Love <> | Date | Sun, 07 Sep 2003 13:02:02 -0400 |
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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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