From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964775AbWDGLJR (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 07:09:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964776AbWDGLJQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 07:09:16 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:55719 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964775AbWDGLJQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 07:09:16 -0400 X-Authenticated: #14349625 Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] quell interactive feeding frenzy From: Mike Galbraith To: Con Kolivas Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, pwil3058@bigpond.net.au In-Reply-To: <200604072100.17900.kernel@kolivas.org> References: <1144402690.7857.31.camel@homer> <20060407095247.GA2788@elte.hu> <1144407438.8870.5.camel@homer> <200604072100.17900.kernel@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:09:45 +0200 Message-Id: <1144408185.8993.7.camel@homer> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 21:00 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Friday 07 April 2006 20:57, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 11:52 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > i think we should try Mike's patches after smpnice got ironed out. The > > > extreme-starvation cases should be handled more or less correctly now by > > > the minimal set of changes from Mike that are upstream (knock on wood), > > > the singing-dancing add-ons can probably wait a bit and smpnice clearly > > > has priority. > > > > (I'm still trying to find ways to do less singing and dancing.) > > > > This patch you may notice wasn't against an mm kernel. I was more or > > less separating this one from the others, because I consider this > > problem to be very severe. IMHO, this or something like it needs to get > > upstream soon. > > Which is a fine observation but your code is changing every 2nd day. Which is > also fine because code needs to evolve. However that's not really the way we > push stuff upstream... No, it's not changing much at all, though I wish it would. WRT this patch, you'll note that the mail subject contains the magical incantation [rfc] (didn't work). I care not one whit whether _my_ patch gets sent upstream or to the bit bucket. I care only that the problem gets solved, and preferably sooner than later. -Mike