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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Fix adverse effects of NFS client on interactive response
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 14:09:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020601020409j3013f7e7w8c242bbb488f013@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43ABFD47.3080000@bigpond.net.au>

Hi,

Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >         /*
> >          * Tasks that have marked their sleep as noninteractive get
> >          * woken up without updating their sleep average. (i.e. their
> >          * sleep is handled in a priority-neutral manner, no priority
> >          * boost and no penalty.)
> >          */
> >
> > This appears to be the only documentation for the TASK_NONINTERACTIVE
> > flag,

On 12/23/05, Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> I guess it makes to many assumptions about the reader's prior knowledge
> of the scheduler internals.  I'll try to make it clearer.

FWIW, Ingo invented TASK_NONINTERACTIVE to fix a problem I had with
Wine. See the following threads for further discussion:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111729237700002&r=1&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111761183900001&r=1&w=2

                                 Pekka

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-02 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-21  6:00 [PATCH] sched: Fix adverse effects of NFS client on interactive response Peter Williams
2005-12-21  6:09 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-21  6:32   ` Peter Williams
2005-12-21 13:21     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-21 13:36       ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-21 13:40         ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-22  2:26           ` Peter Williams
2005-12-22 22:08             ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-22 22:33               ` Peter Williams
2005-12-22 22:59                 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-23  0:02                   ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-23  0:25                     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-23  3:06                       ` Peter Williams
2005-12-23  9:39                         ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-23 10:49                           ` Peter Williams
2005-12-23 12:51                             ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-23 13:36                               ` Peter Williams
2006-01-02 12:09                                 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2005-12-23 19:07                           ` Lee Revell
2005-12-23 21:08                             ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-23 21:17                               ` Lee Revell
2005-12-23 21:23                                 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-23 22:04                                   ` Lee Revell
2005-12-23 22:10                                     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-21 16:10         ` Horst von Brand
2005-12-21 20:36           ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-21 22:59             ` Peter Williams
2005-12-21 16:11     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-21 22:49       ` Peter Williams
2006-01-02 11:01     ` Helge Hafting
2006-01-02 23:54       ` Peter Williams
2006-01-04  1:25         ` Peter Williams
2006-01-04  9:40           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-01-04 12:18             ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-04 10:31               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-01-04 21:51           ` Peter Williams
2006-01-05  6:31             ` Mike Galbraith
2006-01-05 11:31               ` Peter Williams
2006-01-05 14:31                 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-01-05 23:13                   ` Peter Williams
2006-01-05 23:33                     ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-06  0:02                       ` Peter Williams
2006-01-06  0:08                         ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-06  0:40                           ` Peter Williams
2006-01-06  7:39                     ` Mike Galbraith
2006-01-07  1:11                       ` Peter Williams
2006-01-07  5:27                         ` Mike Galbraith
2006-01-07  6:34                           ` Peter Williams
2006-01-07  8:54                             ` Mike Galbraith
2006-01-07 23:40                               ` Peter Williams
2006-01-08  5:51                                 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-01-07  9:30                           ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-07 10:23                             ` Mike Galbraith
2006-01-07 23:31                             ` Peter Williams
2006-01-08  0:38                               ` Con Kolivas

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