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From: Nathanael Hoyle <nhoyle@hoyletech.com>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: scheduler nice 19 versus 'idle' behavior / static low-priority scheduling
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:55:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1233305747.17301.33.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233302861.6061.14.camel@marge.simson.net>

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 09:07 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 02:59 -0500, Nathanael Hoyle wrote:
> 
> > I am running foldingathome under it at the moment, and it seems to be
> > improving the situation somewhat, but I still need/want to test with
> > Mike's referenced patches.
> 
> You will most definitely encounter evilness running SCHED_IDLE tasks in
> a kernel without the SCHED_IDLE fixes.
> 
> 	-Mike
> 

Mike,

Any reason not to apply this fairly simple patch against the 2.6.27
series kernel I'm running now? Are there other relevant changes you're
aware of in the later kernel revs for this problem?

Thanks,
-Nathanael


  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-30  8:56 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 [this message]
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
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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