Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:44:29 +0200 | Subject | Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH v3] sched: automated per tty task groups | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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On Tue, 16.11.10 11:08, david@lang.hm (david@lang.hm) wrote: >> >If the choice is between telling everybody "you should do this", and >> >"we should just do this for you", I'll take the second one every time. >> >We know it should be done. Why should we then tell somebody else to do >> >it for us? >> >> this is good for desktop interactivity because it no longer treats >> all processes equally, it give more CPU to processes that are >> running 'stand-alone' then it will to processes that are forked off >> from one master process.
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de> wrote: > This isn#t good for desktop interatctivey. It is *irrelevant* for > desktop interactivity -- unless you define running "make -j" a typical > desktop usecase. Which it isn't. > > Just stop bringing about the word "desktop" here. It has no point in > this discussion. > >> In the desktop case where you really want something like 'make -j64' > > No you don't. Because that is not a desktop use case.
How about you stop bringing *your* narrow definition of "desktop" to the discussion? I am a kernel hacker but that doesn't mean I'm not also a desktop user. I shouldn't need to play with cgroups from userspace to keep music playing while I compile kernels. Things should just work.
Pekka
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