From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Eric St-Laurent <ericstl34@sympatico.ca>
Cc: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scheduler interactivity: timeslice calculation seem wrong
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:02:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030819190249.GE19465@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1061266033.2900.43.camel@orbiter>
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:07:13AM -0400, Eric St-Laurent wrote:
> - a /proc tunable might be needed to let the user choose the
> interactivity vs efficiency compromise. for example, with 100 background
> tasks, does the user want the most efficiency or prefer wasting some
> cycles to get a smoother progress between jobs?
>
No, this should be avoided. Then you get a bunch of web pages talking about
how this tunable should be set this way, and the problem cases will not be
reported to the people who can fix them. This is good.
> - nanoseconds, or better, cycle accurate (rdtsc) timeslice accouting, it
> may help heuristics.
>
Already done. See the scheduler patch Ingo submitted a few weeks ago.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-19 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-19 2:54 scheduler interactivity: timeslice calculation seem wrong Eric St-Laurent
2003-08-19 3:06 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-19 4:07 ` Eric St-Laurent
2003-08-19 5:23 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-19 6:54 ` Eric St-Laurent
2003-08-19 19:18 ` bill davidsen
2003-08-19 23:48 ` Eric St-Laurent
2003-08-19 23:54 ` Eric St-Laurent
2003-08-19 19:01 ` bill davidsen
2003-08-20 0:15 ` Eric St-Laurent
2003-08-20 0:32 ` David Lang
2003-08-20 0:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-20 4:11 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-08-20 4:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-20 13:59 ` Andrew Theurer
2003-08-20 16:18 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-08-20 2:52 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-19 19:02 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2003-08-19 17:51 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-20 2:41 ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-20 18:45 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-19 4:13 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-19 4:23 ` Eric St-Laurent
2003-08-19 4:29 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-19 5:06 ` Eric St-Laurent
2003-08-19 6:18 ` William Lee Irwin III
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