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Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 13:25:53 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] O12.2int for interactivity
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On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Con Kolivas wrote:

> Reverted Ingo's EXPIRED_STARVING definition; it was making interactive
> tasks expire faster as cpu load increased.

hm, that bit was needed for fairness, otherwise 'interactive' tasks can
monopolize the CPU. [ Have you tried lots of copies of thud.c (and
Davide's irman2 with the most evil settings), do they still produce no
starvation with this bit restored to the original logic? ]

	Ingo