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From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Regression seen for patch "sched:dont decrease idle sleep avg"
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 16:32:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1147822331.4859.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605160945.13157.kernel@kolivas.org>

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 09:45 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:

> 
> Yes it's only designed to detect something that has been asleep for an 
> arbitrary long time and "categorised as idle"; it is not supposed to be a 
> priority stepping stone for everything, in this case at MAX_BONUS-1. Mike 
> proposed doing this instead, but it was never my intent. 

It seems like just one sleep longer than INTERACTIVE_SLEEP is needed
kick the priority of a process all the way to MAX_BONUS-1 and boost the
sleep_avg, regardless of what the prior sleep_avg was.

So if there is a cpu hog that has long sleeps occasionally, once it woke
up, its priority will get boosted close to maximum, likely starving out
other processes for a while till its sleep_avg gets reduced.  This
behavior seems like something to avoid according to the original code
comment.  Are we boosting the priority too quickly?  

Tim


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-17  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-08 23:18 Regression seen for patch "sched:dont decrease idle sleep avg" Tim Chen
2006-05-09  0:43 ` Con Kolivas
2006-05-09  1:07   ` Martin Bligh
2006-05-12  0:04   ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-05-13 12:27     ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-13 13:07       ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-14 16:03     ` Con Kolivas
2006-05-15 19:01       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-05-15 23:45         ` Con Kolivas
2006-05-16  1:22           ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-05-16  1:44             ` Con Kolivas
2006-05-16  4:10           ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-16 23:32           ` Tim Chen [this message]
2006-05-17  4:25             ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-17  4:45               ` Peter Williams
2006-05-17  5:24                 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-17  8:23             ` Con Kolivas
2006-05-17  9:49               ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-17 10:25                 ` Con Kolivas
2006-05-17 11:42                   ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-17 12:46                     ` Con Kolivas
2006-05-17 13:41                       ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-17 15:10                         ` Con Kolivas
2006-05-17 17:21                           ` Ray Lee
2006-05-17 19:33               ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-05-18  0:35                 ` Con Kolivas
2006-05-18  1:10                   ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-05-18  1:38                     ` Con Kolivas
2006-05-18  5:44                       ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-18  5:52                         ` Con Kolivas
2006-05-18  7:04                           ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-18 12:59                             ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-19  1:10                               ` Con Kolivas
2006-05-18 23:17                           ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-05-19  1:30                             ` [PATCH] sched: fix interactive ceiling code Con Kolivas
2006-05-19  2:02                               ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-19  9:40                               ` Ingo Molnar
2006-05-19 14:37                               ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-05-19 16:19                                 ` tim_c_chen
2006-05-18 23:34                           ` Regression seen for patch "sched:dont decrease idle sleep avg" Chen, Kenneth W
2006-05-19  1:07                             ` Con Kolivas
2006-05-16  4:07         ` Mike Galbraith
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2006-05-18  4:01 Al Boldi

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