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From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>, Szonyi Calin <sony@etc.utt.ro>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] O3int interactivity for 2.5.74-mm2
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 17:59:39 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307081759.39215.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.55.0307080007200.3648@bigblue.dev.mcafeelabs.com>

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 17:46, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Szonyi Calin wrote:
> > In the weekend i did some experiments with the defines in kernel/sched.c
> > It seems that changing in MAX_TIMESLICE the "200" to "100" or even "50"
> > helps a little bit. (i was able to do a make bzImage and watch a movie
> > without noticing that is a kernel compile in background)
>
> I bet it helps. Something around 100-120 should be fine. Now we need an
> exponential function of the priority to assign timeslices to try to
> maintain interactivity. This should work :

This is still decreasing the timeslices. Whether you do it linearly or 
exponentially the timeslices are smaller, which just about everyone will 
resist you doing.

Con


  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-08  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-06 17:16 [PATCH] O3int interactivity for 2.5.74-mm2 Con Kolivas
2003-07-06 18:36 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-07-06 21:14   ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-06 21:17   ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-07  3:19   ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-07  9:13     ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-07-07  9:40     ` Mike Galbraith
2003-07-07 10:25       ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-07 14:06         ` Mike Galbraith
2003-07-07 14:10           ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-07 10:51     ` Nick Sanders
2003-07-07 12:19       ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-07-07 13:14         ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-08  0:31         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-09 10:12           ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-07-09 10:13             ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-07-09 10:22             ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-09 10:23               ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-07-09 10:37                 ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-09 10:40                   ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-07-07 13:25     ` Helge Hafting
2003-07-08  6:35     ` Alex Riesen
2003-07-08  7:11     ` Szonyi Calin
2003-07-08  7:46       ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-08  7:59         ` Con Kolivas [this message]
2003-07-08 15:12           ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-08 20:54             ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-08 20:55               ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-08  8:03       ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-10 16:27         ` Szonyi Calin
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2003-07-09 15:08 Luis Miguel Garcia

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