From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272571AbTHFV2u (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 17:28:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272570AbTHFV2u (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 17:28:50 -0400 Received: from c210-49-248-224.thoms1.vic.optusnet.com.au ([210.49.248.224]:56750 "EHLO mail.kolivas.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272571AbTHFV20 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 17:28:26 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Timothy Miller , Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [PATCH] O13int for interactivity Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 07:33:38 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 Cc: linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Felipe Alfaro Solana References: <200308050207.18096.kernel@kolivas.org> <3F2F87DA.7040103@cyberone.com.au> <3F31741F.30200@techsource.com> In-Reply-To: <3F31741F.30200@techsource.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308070733.38135.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > For this, I reiterate my suggestion to intentionally over-shoot the > mark. If you do it right, a process will run an inappropriate length of > time only every other time slice until the oscillation dies down. Your thoughts are fine, and to some degree I do what you're proscribing, but I take into account the behaviour of real processes in the real world and their effect on scheduling fairness. Con