From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932432AbWDGLAv (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 07:00:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932431AbWDGLAv (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 07:00:51 -0400 Received: from mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.185]:59587 "EHLO mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932432AbWDGLAu (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 07:00:50 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Mike Galbraith Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] quell interactive feeding frenzy Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 21:00:16 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, pwil3058@bigpond.net.au References: <1144402690.7857.31.camel@homer> <20060407095247.GA2788@elte.hu> <1144407438.8870.5.camel@homer> In-Reply-To: <1144407438.8870.5.camel@homer> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604072100.17900.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 07 April 2006 20:57, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 11:52 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > 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. > > (I'm still trying to find ways to do less singing and dancing.) > > This patch you may notice wasn't against an mm kernel. I was more or > less separating this one from the others, because I consider this > problem to be very severe. IMHO, this or something like it needs to get > upstream soon. Which is a fine observation but your code is changing every 2nd day. Which is also fine because code needs to evolve. However that's not really the way we push stuff upstream... -ck