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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: digitale@digitaleric.net, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	rml@tech9.net, mingo@elte.hu,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] "HT scheduler", sched-2.5.63-B3
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 15:40:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <24000000.1046994021@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303061730.39422.digitale@digitaleric.net>

> At first I strongly dissaproved of the kernel's timeslice adjustment by 
> interactivity estimation; policy belongs in userland, I thought.  But the 

That seems to be one of the most dramatically overused misguided statements
bandied about in Linux at the moment, with respect to just about every 
subsystem, and it's really starting to get annoying.

Yes, you should be able to frig with policy decisions from userspace, if
you really want to BUT the kernel should do something pretty sane by 
default without user intervention. It's exactly the same mistake apps
keep making, and why half of them are unusable.

M.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-06 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-28  9:50 [patch] "HT scheduler", sched-2.5.63-B3 Ingo Molnar
2003-02-28 21:12 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-28 21:23   ` Robert Love
2003-03-01  4:25     ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-06  3:20       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-06  7:45         ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-06  7:47           ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-06 15:07             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-06 16:54               ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-06 17:03                 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-06 17:24                   ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-06 17:42                     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-06 17:54                       ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-06 18:02                         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-06 18:11                           ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-06 17:55                       ` John Levon
2003-03-06 18:07                         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-06 18:11                           ` John Levon
2003-03-06 18:16                             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-06 18:15                           ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-06 18:20                             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-06 18:10                               ` David S. Miller
2003-03-06 18:18                           ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-07  5:57                       ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-07  5:54                         ` Shawn
2003-03-07  6:04                           ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-07 14:28                         ` jlnance
2003-03-07  6:45                       ` Aaron Lehmann
2003-03-07  6:50                         ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-07  7:00                           ` Aaron Lehmann
2003-03-07  7:36                             ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-08 18:28                               ` Aaron Lehmann
2003-03-07  7:00                         ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07  3:19                   ` Horst von Brand
2003-03-06 15:37           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-06 16:01             ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-06 16:51               ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-06 17:11                 ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-06 17:52                   ` jvlists
2003-03-06 18:27                     ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-07  8:15                       ` Xavier Bestel
2003-03-06 23:18                     ` Robert Love
2003-03-06 18:49                   ` Alan Cox
2003-03-06 17:55                     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-06 18:04                       ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-06 18:13                         ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-06 18:26                           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08  0:05                       ` Daniel Phillips
2003-03-06 17:58                     ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-06 17:17               ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-06 18:06                 ` Dimitrie O. Paun
2003-03-06 22:14                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-06 22:31                     ` Dimitrie O. Paun
2003-03-06 23:05                       ` Robert Love
2003-03-06 23:33                         ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-06 18:25               ` Alan Cox
2003-03-06 17:35                 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-06 22:30                   ` Eric Northup
2003-03-06 23:40                     ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2003-03-07  0:02                       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-07  0:09                         ` Dimitrie O. Paun
2003-03-06 22:00               ` Bill Davidsen
2003-03-06 17:13         ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-06 17:30           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-06 17:33             ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-06 17:50             ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-06 18:00               ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-06 20:42         ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-06 22:18           ` Robert Love
2003-03-07  5:52           ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-07  5:51             ` Shawn
2003-03-07  6:01               ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-07  6:07               ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07  6:15           ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-07 10:19             ` Helge Hafting
2003-03-07 11:06               ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-07  7:45           ` Mike Galbraith
2003-03-07  7:45             ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found]             ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303070842420.4572-100000@localhost.localdom ain>
2003-03-07  8:09               ` Mike Galbraith
2003-03-07  8:10                 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07  8:26                   ` Mike Galbraith
2003-03-07  8:15                 ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found]                 ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303070913370.5173-100000@localhost.localdom ain>
2003-03-07  8:34                   ` Mike Galbraith
2003-03-07  8:31                     ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-06 22:03         ` Martin Waitz
2003-03-06 22:07           ` Robert Love
2003-03-06 22:35             ` Martin Waitz
2003-03-06 22:56               ` Robert Love
2003-03-06 23:27                 ` Martin Waitz
2003-03-06 23:36                   ` Robert Love
2003-03-07 10:39                     ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-07 10:27             ` Ingo Molnar
2003-03-06  6:58       ` [patch] "interactivity changes", sched-2.5.64-A4 Ingo Molnar
2003-03-06 10:00         ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-06 10:07           ` [patch] "interactivity changes", sched-2.5.64-A5 Ingo Molnar
2003-03-06 10:16 ` [patch] "HT scheduler", sched-2.5.63-B3 Chris Wedgwood
2003-03-06 10:18   ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found] <5.2.0.9.2.20030307093435.01a8fe88@pop.gmx.net>
2003-03-07  9:30 ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303071003060.6318-100000@localhost.localdom ain>
2003-03-07  9:38   ` Mike Galbraith
2003-03-10 19:53 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky

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