From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@gmail.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] TASK_NONINTERACTIVE (was: Machine Freezes while Running Crossover Office)
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:55:50 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200506011855.54477.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050601073544.GA21384@elte.hu>
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On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 17:35, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Pekka, could you check whether the patch below solves your Wine problem
> (without hurting interactivity otherwise)?
>
> Ingo
>
> ----
>
> this patch implements a task state bit (TASK_NONINTERACTIVE), which can
> be used by blocking points to mark the task's wait as "non-interactive".
> This does not mean the task will be considered a CPU-hog - the wait will
> simply not have an effect on the waiting task's priority - positive or
> negative alike. Right now only pipe_wait() will make use of it, because
> it's a common source of not-so-interactive waits (kernel compilation
> jobs, etc.).
A very elegant solution! Not only is it unlikely this will harm interactivity,
I suspect it will improve it in other areas.
Cheers,
Con
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-01 8:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-28 14:46 [PROBLEM] Machine Freezes while Running Crossover Office Pekka Enberg
2005-05-29 18:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-29 18:20 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-05-29 18:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-29 20:49 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-05-29 22:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-29 23:06 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-05-30 15:23 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-05-30 17:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-30 18:07 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-05-30 18:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-05-30 18:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-30 18:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-30 19:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-05-31 13:54 ` Greg Stark
2005-05-31 6:15 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-05-31 6:35 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-05-31 6:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-05-31 16:53 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-05-31 17:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-31 18:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-05-31 21:20 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-06-01 0:07 ` Con Kolivas
2005-06-01 2:31 ` David Lang
2005-06-01 7:35 ` [patch] TASK_NONINTERACTIVE (was: Machine Freezes while Running Crossover Office) Ingo Molnar
2005-06-01 8:42 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-06-01 8:55 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
2005-06-01 10:26 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-06-01 18:06 ` [patch] " Gene Heskett
2005-06-03 8:34 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-06-03 10:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-06-07 13:14 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-10-17 15:10 ` [patch] " Pekka Enberg
2005-10-17 15:15 ` Ingo Molnar
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