From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>, root <r6144@263.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make highly niced processes run only when idle
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:46:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011209184656.E8846@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75F30A52-ECF4-11D5-80FE-00039355CFA6@suespammers.org> <1007939114.878.1.camel@phantasy> <20011209181643.A8846@redhat.com> <1007940066.878.7.camel@phantasy>
In-Reply-To: <1007940066.878.7.camel@phantasy>; from rml@tech9.net on Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 06:21:05PM -0500
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 06:21:05PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> Ahh ... wait, do you mean periodically run them, but only give them the
> boost while they are in kernel space? Very good idea. Can you see an
> easy way to do this?
Actually, yes: in entry.S the ret_from_syscall path which calls schedule
can be changed to pass a parameter indicating it is returning to userspace
afterwards which would let schedule know the bump is not needed.
-ben
--
Fish.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-09 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-08 4:38 [PATCH] Make highly niced processes run only when idle root
2001-12-08 4:39 ` Robert Love
2001-12-09 22:31 ` Anthony DeRobertis
2001-12-09 23:05 ` Robert Love
2001-12-09 23:16 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-09 23:21 ` Robert Love
2001-12-09 23:46 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2001-12-10 0:30 ` Robert Love
2001-12-10 2:46 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-10 12:25 ` Niteshadow
2001-12-11 1:35 ` Steve Bergman
2001-12-19 23:49 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-11 1:36 ` Ton Hospel
2001-12-11 1:54 ` Robert Love
2001-12-13 21:42 ` Pavel Machek
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