From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Nathanael Hoyle <nhoyle@hoyletech.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scheduler nice 19 versus 'idle' behavior / static low-priority scheduling
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:50:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1233305433.4495.154.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233294584.28741.2.camel@localhost>
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 00:49 -0500, Nathanael Hoyle wrote:
>
> 1) Is my problem 'expected' based on others' understanding of the
> current design of the scheduler, or do I have a one-off problem to
> troubleshoot here?
What kernel are you running (or did my eye glance over that detail in
your longish email) ?
> 2) Am I overlooking obvious alternative (but clean) fixes?
Maybe, we fixed a glaring bug in this department recently (or more even,
if you're on older than .28).
> 3) Does anyone else see the need for static, but low process priorities?
Yep, its rather common.
> 4) What is the view of introducing a new scheduler class to handle this?
We should have plenty available, SCHED_IDLE should just work -- as
should nice 19 for that matter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-30 8:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-30 5:49 scheduler nice 19 versus 'idle' behavior / static low-priority scheduling Nathanael Hoyle
2009-01-30 6:16 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-30 6:40 ` Nathanael Hoyle
2009-01-30 7:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-30 7:59 ` Nathanael Hoyle
2009-01-30 8:07 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-01-30 8:55 ` Nathanael Hoyle
2009-01-30 9:29 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-01-30 22:12 ` Brian Rogers
2009-01-31 5:38 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-01-31 9:08 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-02-02 23:57 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2009-02-09 15:19 ` Brian Rogers
2009-02-09 15:51 ` Greg KH
2009-01-30 8:16 ` Nathanael Hoyle
2009-01-30 13:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-30 14:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-30 6:17 ` V.Radhakrishnan
2009-01-30 6:48 ` Nathanael Hoyle
2009-01-30 14:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-30 6:24 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-01-30 6:52 ` Nathanael Hoyle
2009-01-30 7:09 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-01-30 8:50 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-01-30 9:00 ` Nathanael Hoyle
2009-01-30 9:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-30 10:18 ` Nathanael Hoyle
2009-01-30 10:31 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-01-30 10:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-30 10:50 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-02-02 17:23 ` Lennart Sorensen
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