From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264201AbTICXD4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 19:03:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264345AbTICXD4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 19:03:56 -0400 Received: from c-780372d5.012-136-6c756e2.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se ([213.114.3.120]:1758 "EHLO pomac.netswarm.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264338AbTICXDx (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 19:03:53 -0400 Subject: Re: [SHED] Questions. From: Ian Kumlien To: Nick Piggin Cc: Con Kolivas , Daniel Phillips , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Robert Love In-Reply-To: <3F552C70.2030109@cyberone.com.au> References: <1062324435.9959.56.camel@big.pomac.com> <200309011707.20135.phillips@arcor.de> <1062457396.9959.243.camel@big.pomac.com> <200309021023.24763.kernel@kolivas.org> <1062498307.5171.267.camel@big.pomac.com> <3F547A4B.7060309@cyberone.com.au> <1062523374.5171.321.camel@big.pomac.com> <3F552C70.2030109@cyberone.com.au> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-8OQ+O4lCx5EFAH2I0iBO" Message-Id: <1062630148.9959.680.camel@big.pomac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 01:02:29 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-8OQ+O4lCx5EFAH2I0iBO Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 01:49, Nick Piggin wrote: > Ian Kumlien wrote: > >When you reach a certain load you *have to* allow starvation. Ie, you > >can't work around it... All i say is that if we have a more relaxed > >method we might benefit from it. > Depending on your definition. If 1000 processes get 10ms CPU every > 10000ms I would not call that being starved. Maybe thats misleading. [Sorry, i'm tired, i hope this comes out right ] What i'm thinking of is more of a, "Hey, hog, we didn't manage to get you in on this 'system wide schedule' (doing all the tasks before restarting) due to heavy load, so we'll give you this boost so that you can compete better next time". > >And not the amount of cpu consumed by the app / go? > Well yeah in a way. Consuming CPU lowers priority, sleeping raises. Thought so. And afair it does use "timeslice useage" at one time or has that changed? > >Mail me if you're interested as well. > OK CC me As soon as Con has me straight on a few things... =3D) --=20 Ian Kumlien --=-8OQ+O4lCx5EFAH2I0iBO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/VnME7F3Euyc51N8RAsHxAJ0YYgftRtzL2DXnPi8Uug0e/77ABwCcC60R 03J3kspRDhpWyVicRjit8Q4= =x+aP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-8OQ+O4lCx5EFAH2I0iBO--