From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>,
linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] O1int 0307021808 for interactivity
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:49 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307040034.49102.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307031627.11299.phillips@arcor.de>
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:27, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Thursday 03 July 2003 14:21, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > Theory? uh erm it's rather involved but basically instead
> > of working off the accumulated sleeping ticks gathered in ten seconds it
> > works on the accumulated sleeping ticks gathered till it wakes up. It has
> > non linear semantics to cope with the fact that you cant accumulate 10
> > seconds worth of ticks (for example) if only 10 seconds has passed
> > (likewise for less time). Also idle tasks are no longer considered fully
> > interactive but idle and receive no boost or penalty. Finally they all
> > start with some sleep ticks inherited by their parent as though they have
> > been running for 1 second at least.
>
> I'm still pretty much in the dark after that. It says something about your
> patch, but it doesn't say much about the problem you're solving, i.e.,
> what's the Context? (pun intended)
Basically? Who gets to preempt who and for how long. The interactivity
estimator should decide that the correct task is interactive and get a
dynamically higher priority and larger timeslice. Is this what you're asking?
Con
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-03 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-02 8:23 [PATCH] O1int 0307021808 for interactivity Con Kolivas
2003-07-03 11:46 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-07-03 12:21 ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-03 14:27 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-07-03 14:34 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
2003-07-03 16:29 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-07-02 9:17 Luis Miguel Garcia
2003-07-02 9:53 ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-02 10:09 ` Luis Miguel Garcia
2003-07-02 10:12 ` Luis Miguel Garcia
2003-07-02 10:10 ` Con Kolivas
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