From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261783AbTHYOgP (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 10:36:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261390AbTHYOgP (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 10:36:15 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:8338 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261783AbTHYOgO (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 10:36:14 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@users.sourceforge.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Nick's scheduler policy v7 Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:36:12 +0200 Message-ID: References: <3F48B12F.4070001@cyberone.com.au> <29760000.1061744102@[10.10.2.4]> <3F497BB6.90100@cyberone.com.au> <3F49E7D1.4000309@cyberone.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mDa3tMi55f7J9QvpBy9X/yq7Pdw= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nick Piggin writes: > This one has a few changes. Children now get a priority boost > on fork, and parents retain more priority after forking a child, > however exiting CPU hogs will now penalise parents a bit. > > Timeslice scaling was tweaked a bit. Oh and remember raising X's > priority should _help_ interactivity with this patch, and IMO is > not an unreasonable thing to be doing. > > Please test. I'm not getting enough feedback! OK, if you test my software. Seriously, though, it seems OK at first glance. I can't reproduce the XEmacs problems I had with Con's recent versions. I'll have to run it for a while and see what it seems like. -- Måns Rullgård mru@users.sf.net