Re: [PATCH] O12.2int for interactivity

Con Kolivas
2003-08-03T11:36:49Z

Quoting Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>:

>
> On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Con Kolivas wrote:
>
> > Reverted Ingo's EXPIRED_STARVING definition; it was making interactive
> > tasks expire faster as cpu load increased.
>
> hm, that bit was needed for fairness, otherwise 'interactive' tasks can
> monopolize the CPU. [ Have you tried lots of copies of thud.c (and
> Davide's irman2 with the most evil settings), do they still produce no
> starvation with this bit restored to the original logic? ]

Ooh hang on I've not tried lots of copies of thud.c at once. Can't try for a
little while though.

Con