From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262371AbTHYWjP (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:39:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262372AbTHYWjP (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:39:15 -0400 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:785 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262371AbTHYWjO (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:39:14 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:30:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Davidsen To: Felipe Alfaro Solana cc: Nick Piggin , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Nick's scheduler policy In-Reply-To: <1061735355.1034.2.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.