From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: O(1) scheduler starvation
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:51:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030618165124.GJ26348@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1055922807.585.5.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com>
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:53:28AM +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> I'm running 2.5.72-mm1 with Mike Galbraith's scheduler patches and a
> small patch I made myself to improve interactivity (mainly, to stop XMMS
> from skipping by adjusting some scheduler parameters).
> What's going on here? Is the previous article outdated, or have the
> starvation problems been definitively fixed?
The MAX_TIMESLICE change is inappropriate.
There's papering over broken algorithms, and then there's getting really
blatant about it -- and MAX_TIMESLICE going from 200 -> 20 is blatant.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-18 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-18 7:53 O(1) scheduler starvation Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-06-18 12:04 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-06-18 12:16 ` Helge Hafting
2003-06-18 12:32 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-06-18 14:22 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-06-18 15:54 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-06-18 15:59 ` Con Kolivas
2003-06-18 16:29 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-06-18 21:30 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-06-18 22:32 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-06-18 16:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-18 17:17 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-06-18 16:51 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-18 20:44 Ricardo Galli
2003-06-18 20:48 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
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