From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261496AbTHYJCW (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 05:02:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261512AbTHYJCW (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 05:02:22 -0400 Received: from c210-49-248-224.thoms1.vic.optusnet.com.au ([210.49.248.224]:38333 "EHLO mail.kolivas.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261496AbTHYJCV (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 05:02:21 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [RFC] Orthogonal Interactivity Patches Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:09:16 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200308251322.12050.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <200308251322.12050.kernel@kolivas.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308251909.16932.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Addendum On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:22, Con Kolivas wrote: > default scheduler. The remaining issue is that application startup will be > slower than the vanilla scheduler (your mileage may vary) under load, but I > feel not unacceptably so as a tradeoff. I'm experimenting with a kind of central tendency with tasks that have not yet declared themselves high or low credit by weighting down the cpu run time when their credit is neither high nor low. Hopefully this can speed up application startup under load without too much general slowdown by current cpu hogs. Con