From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932406AbWDGJzN (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 05:55:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932407AbWDGJzN (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 05:55:13 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:27021 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932406AbWDGJzL (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 05:55:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:52:47 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Andrew Morton Cc: Mike Galbraith , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, pwil3058@bigpond.net.au, kernel@kolivas.org Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] quell interactive feeding frenzy Message-ID: <20060407095247.GA2788@elte.hu> References: <1144402690.7857.31.camel@homer> <20060407024758.22417917.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060407024758.22417917.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.8 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.8 required=5.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -2.8 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts 0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Andrew Morton wrote: > Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > Problem: > > I don't know what to do with all these patches you keep sending. > > a) The other sched guys seem to be hiding and > > b) I'm still sitting on smpnice, and I don't think that's had all its > problems ironed out yet, so putting the interactivity things in > there as well will complicate getting that sorted out. i think we should try Mike's patches after smpnice got ironed out. The extreme-starvation cases should be handled more or less correctly now by the minimal set of changes from Mike that are upstream (knock on wood), the singing-dancing add-ons can probably wait a bit and smpnice clearly has priority. Ingo