From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
Cc: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scheduler hints
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:23:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020605122353.G5277@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1023206034.912.89.camel@sinai> <3CFDC796.C05FC7E2@aitel.hist.no>
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:11:02AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> The problem is that this may be abused. Someone nasty could
> write a cpu hog that drops a lot of hints about being
> interactive, starving real interactive programs.
>
> Generally, it degenerates into application programmers
> using _all_ the hints to get performance, so they
> can beat some competitor in benchmarks. And all
> other programs just get penalized.
I can see how that would be a problem.
If I didn't have the source to $programs.
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-05 10:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-04 15:53 [PATCH] scheduler hints Robert Love
2002-06-04 17:38 ` Simon Trimmer
2002-06-04 18:07 ` Robert Love
2002-06-05 8:11 ` Helge Hafting
2002-06-05 10:23 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-06-05 16:17 ` Robert Love
2002-06-07 11:32 ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-12 18:37 ` Ingo Oeser
2002-06-12 19:39 ` Robert Love
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2002-06-06 0:46 ` Rick Bressler
2002-06-06 0:53 ` Robert Love
2002-06-06 1:14 ` Rick Bressler
2002-06-06 1:05 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-06-06 1:11 ` Robert Love
2002-06-06 1:19 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-06-10 21:05 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-06-10 22:27 ` Gerrit Huizenga
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