Re: [PATCH] O12.2int for interactivity

Ingo Molnar
2003-08-03T11:31:20Z

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? ]

Ingo