From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932427AbWDGK4x (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 06:56:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932431AbWDGK4x (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 06:56:53 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:4278 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932427AbWDGK4w (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 06:56:52 -0400 X-Authenticated: #14349625 Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] quell interactive feeding frenzy From: Mike Galbraith To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, pwil3058@bigpond.net.au, kernel@kolivas.org In-Reply-To: <20060407095247.GA2788@elte.hu> References: <1144402690.7857.31.camel@homer> <20060407024758.22417917.akpm@osdl.org> <20060407095247.GA2788@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:57:18 +0200 Message-Id: <1144407438.8870.5.camel@homer> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 11:52 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > i think we should try Mike's patches after smpnice got ironed out. The > extreme-starvation cases should be handled more or less correctly now by > the minimal set of changes from Mike that are upstream (knock on wood), > the singing-dancing add-ons can probably wait a bit and smpnice clearly > has priority. (I'm still trying to find ways to do less singing and dancing.) This patch you may notice wasn't against an mm kernel. I was more or less separating this one from the others, because I consider this problem to be very severe. IMHO, this or something like it needs to get upstream soon. -Mike