From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Nick's scheduler policy
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:30:23 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1030825182819.12992C-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1061735355.1034.2.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com>
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 14:35, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Patch against 2.6.0-test4. It fixes a lot of problems here vs
> > previous versions. There aren't really any open issues for me, so
> > testers would be welcome.
> >
> > The big change is more dynamic timeslices, which allows "interactive"
> > tasks to get very small timeslices while more compute intensive loads
> > can be given bigger timeslices than usual. This works properly with
> > nice (niced processes will tend to get bigger timeslices).
> >
> > I think I have cured test-starve too.
>
> I haven't still found any starvation cases, but forking time when the
> system is under heavy load has increased considerable with respect to
> vanilla or Con's O18.1int:
Not having starvation cases may be worth a little overhead. I am more
concerned about avoiding "jackpot cases" than throughput, at least on a
desktop.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-25 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-24 12:35 [PATCH] Nick's scheduler policy Nick Piggin
2003-08-24 14:29 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-08-25 3:05 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-25 22:30 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2003-08-24 16:55 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-08-25 3:00 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-25 10:41 ` [PATCH] Nick's scheduler policy v7 Nick Piggin
2003-08-25 11:03 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-08-25 14:36 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-08-26 3:24 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-08-26 4:04 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-26 9:44 ` Yaroslav Rastrigin
2003-08-27 9:28 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-25 3:27 ` [PATCH] Nick's scheduler policy Randy.Dunlap
2003-08-25 3:36 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-26 3:16 ` Mike Fedyk
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