From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270877AbTG0QWR (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:22:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270875AbTG0QWR (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:22:17 -0400 Received: from mail-07.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.39]:60677 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S270874AbTG0QUg (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:20:36 -0400 Message-ID: <3F23FD2F.6030000@ii.net> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 00:26:23 +0800 From: Wade User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030724 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] O10int for interactivity References: <200307280112.16043.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <200307280112.16043.kernel@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Con Kolivas wrote: > Here is a fairly rapid evolution of the O*int patches for interactivity thanks > to Ingo's involvement. > > Changes: > I've put in some defines to clarify where the numbers for MAX_SLEEP_AVG come > from now, rather than the number being magic. In the process it increases MSA > every so slightly so that an average task that runs a full timeslice (102ms) > will drop exactly one priority in that time. > > I've incorporated Ingo's fix for scheduling latency in a form that works for > my patch, along with the other minor tweaks. > > The parent and child sleep avg on forking is set to just on the priority bonus > value with each fork thus keeping their bonus the same but making them very > easy to tip to a lower priority. > > A tiny addition to ensure any task that runs gets charged one tick of > sleep_avg. > > This patch is against 2.6.0-test1-mm2 patched up to O9int. An updated > O9int with layout corrections was posted on my website. A full O10int patch > against 2.6.0-test1 is available on my website. > > Con > > http://kernel.kolivas.org/2.5 > [snip] Anyone who has been holding back on trying these patches out should try this one, it's _very_ smooth for me here. Thank you Con & Ingo!