From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] O13int for interactivity
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 15:04:04 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1060059844.3f2f3ac46e2f2@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F2F2517.7080507@cyberone.com.au>
Quoting Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>:
>
>
> Con Kolivas wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 12:21, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >
> >>No, this still special-cases the uninterruptible sleep. Why is this
> >>needed? What is being worked around? There is probably a way to
> >>attack the cause of the problem.
> >>
> >
> >Footnote: I was thinking of using this to also _elevate_ the dynamic
> priority
> >of tasks waking from interruptible sleep as well which may help throughput.
> >
>
> Con, an uninterruptible sleep is one which is not be woken by a signal,
> an interruptible sleep is one which is. There is no other connotation.
> What happens when read/write syscalls are changed to be interruptible?
> I'm not saying this will happen... but come to think of it, NFS probably
> has interruptible read/write.
>
> In short: make the same policy for an interruptible and an uninterruptible
> sleep.
That's the policy that has always existed...
Interesting that I have only seen the desired effect and haven't noticed any
side effect from this change so far. I'll keep experimenting as much as
possible (as if I wasn't going to) and see what the testers find as well.
Con
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-05 5:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-04 16:07 [PATCH] O13int for interactivity Con Kolivas
2003-08-04 18:24 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-08-04 19:15 ` Antonio Vargas
2003-08-04 21:32 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-04 20:11 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-04 22:11 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-05 7:10 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-05 2:11 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-05 2:20 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-05 2:21 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-05 3:06 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-05 3:17 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-06 18:48 ` Interactivity improvements Timothy Miller
2003-08-06 19:01 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-06 20:09 ` Helge Hafting
2003-08-06 21:15 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-05 3:18 ` [PATCH] O13int for interactivity Con Kolivas
2003-08-05 3:31 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-05 5:04 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
2003-08-05 5:12 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-05 5:16 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-05 5:28 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-05 10:22 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-05 10:32 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-05 10:45 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-05 10:48 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-05 10:56 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-05 11:03 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-05 11:12 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-05 11:23 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-05 11:34 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-05 10:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-08-05 11:10 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-06 21:33 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-06 21:33 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-07 0:27 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-07 0:27 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-07 0:44 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-11 6:48 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-11 15:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-12 2:51 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-12 6:16 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-12 7:07 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-12 7:18 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-12 9:42 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-12 21:11 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-13 6:55 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-12 9:22 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-12 9:37 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-12 9:48 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-12 10:29 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-12 11:08 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-12 11:35 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-12 11:58 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-13 2:08 ` jw schultz
2003-08-13 3:07 ` Gene Heskett
2003-08-13 3:24 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-13 5:24 ` Gene Heskett
2003-08-13 5:43 ` Andrew McGregor
2003-08-13 12:33 ` Gene Heskett
2003-08-14 5:03 ` Andrew McGregor
2003-08-14 10:48 ` Gene Heskett
2003-08-12 15:36 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-05 6:03 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-05 7:26 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-05 8:12 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-08-05 8:20 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-05 8:27 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-05 8:43 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-05 9:09 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-05 9:19 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-05 10:04 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-11 6:57 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-11 15:58 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-05 7:53 ` Mike Galbraith
[not found] <gQ4n.5oS.7@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <jUl6.5eh.1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <jUuT.5kZ.15@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <jWn1.6K1.11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-13 13:48 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-08-13 14:50 ` Gene Heskett
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-06 10:35 Voluspa
2003-08-04 19:12 Voluspa
2003-07-27 15:12 [PATCH] O10int " Con Kolivas
2003-07-28 18:08 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-28 18:40 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-04 18:51 ` [PATCH] O13int " Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-08-04 18:58 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-08-04 21:46 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-04 22:16 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
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