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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: Eric Piel <Eric.Piel@lifl.fr>,
	Ken Moffat <ken@kenmoffat.uklinux.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ondemand cpufreq ineffective in 2.6.12 ?
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:57:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1121180244.2632.55.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200507122152.26106.kernel@kolivas.org>

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 21:52 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > Well, it's just the default settings of the kernel which has changed. If
> > you want the old behaviour, you can use (with your admin hat):
> > echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand/ignore_nice
> > IMHO it seems quite fair, if you have a process nice'd to 10 it probably
> > means you are not in a hurry.
> 
> That's not necessarily true. Most people use 'nice' to have the cpu bound task 
> not affect their foreground applications, _not_ because they don't care how 
> long they take.

But the scheduler should do this on its own!  If people are having to
renice kernel compiles to maintain decent interactive performance (and
yes, I have to do the same thing sometimes) the scheduler is BROKEN,
period.

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-12 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-11 16:25 ondemand cpufreq ineffective in 2.6.12 ? Ken Moffat
2005-07-11 19:45 ` Ken Moffat
2005-07-11 21:55   ` Con Kolivas
2005-07-12  7:58     ` Eric Piel
2005-07-12 10:37       ` Ken Moffat
2005-07-12 11:11         ` Ken Moffat
2005-07-12 11:49           ` Eric Piel
2005-07-12 11:52             ` Con Kolivas
2005-07-12 14:57               ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-07-12 21:26                 ` Con Kolivas
2005-07-12 13:30             ` Ken Moffat
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-07-12 11:07 Daniel J Blueman
2005-07-12 11:35 ` Ken Moffat

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