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SubjectRe: [2.6.16-rc6 patch] fix interactive task starvation
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On Saturday 18 March 2006 19:05, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
> > The patch below fixes a starvation problem that occurs when a stream of
> > highly interactive tasks delay an array switch for extended periods
> > despite EXPIRED_STARVING(rq) being true. AFAIKT, the only choice is to
> > enqueue awakening tasks on the expired array in this case.
> >
> > Without this patch, it can be nearly impossible to remotely login to a
> > busy server, and interactive shell commands can starve for minutes.
> >
> > This has not been verified by anyone. Comments?
>
> What does that question mean, btw?

He's waiting for me to say I don't like it. But I do like it.

> -mm is looking like linux-2.6.38 at present so of course things got tangled
> up - sched-activate-sched-batch-expired.patch modifies __activate_task().
>
> I ended up with the below.
>
> Which do we think is more likely to be true - batch_task(p) or
> expired_starving(rq)? batch_task() looks cheaper to evaluate so I put that
> first. But I guess it's less likely to be true. hmm.

Depends entirely on workload so it's impossible to predict in advance. Any
order will do I suspect.

> + if (unlikely(batch_task(p) || expired_starving(rq)))

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>

Cheers,
Con
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