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Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.16-mm2 5/9] sched throttle tree extract - correct
	idle sleep logic
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 10:59 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> This patch corrects the idle sleep logic to place a long sleeping task
> into the runqueue at a barely interactive priority such that it can
> not destroy interactivity should it immediately begin consuming
> massive cpu. 

Did you test this extensively with bloated apps like Evolution and
Firefox that need to be scheduled as interactive tasks even though they
often peg the CPU?

Lee